Labour ads use NHS to attack Farage’s views before major Reform rally

Nigel Farage speaking at the rally in Birmingham. Labour says the Reform leader would prefer the NHS to be run using a more US-style system. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Labour has begun an all-out assault on Nigel Farage over his views on the NHS in the run-up to key elections in May, as the Reform UK leader prepared to host what is billed as his party’s biggest ever rally in Birmingham.

In a coordinated campaign before Farage spoke at a 10,000-person event in the city on Friday evening, Labour paid for nearly a dozen billboard posters around the city with messages about his talk about replacing the NHS with an insurance-based healthcare system.