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David Lynch

Starmer criticises Tommy Robinson endorsement of Reform UK by-election candidate

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) walks the Shanghai Bund with Business and Trade Secretary Peter Kyle in Shanghai, China. (Carl Court/Getty) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the “politics of poisonous division” of Reform UK after the party’s candidate in a forthcoming by-election was endorsed by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

The Prime Minister also refused to say whether he would personally join on-the-ground campaigning efforts in Gorton and Denton, a constituency in Greater Manchester which Labour hopes to hold when voters go to the polls.

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