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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot and Aletha Adu

Keir Starmer attacks ‘racist’ Farage plan to deport people settled in the UK

Keir Starmer sitting in a TV studio
Keir Starmer was speaking in Liverpool, where Labour is holding its conference. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Media

Keir Starmer has attacked Reform UK’s plan to deport thousands of people already legally living in the UK as “racist” and “immoral”, as he said that Labour had a generational struggle ahead with the populist right.

The prime minister, in Liverpool for his party conference, said he did not think that Nigel Farage’s party was trying to appeal to racists, and that he understood people tempted to vote for Reform were frustrated and wanted change.

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