Starmer Says Farage’s ‘Racist’ Policies Would Tear UK Apart

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1. *Alex Wickham for Bloomberg News*

   Prime Minister Keir Starmer dialed up his political attacks on right-wing populist leader Nigel Farage, calling his proposal to deport some legal migrants already living in Britain racist and immoral.

   “I do think it’s a racist policy,” Starmer told the BBC at the beginning of his governing Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool on Sunday. “It’s immoral and we need to call it out for what it is.” The premier made the distinction that he did not think those considering voting for Farage’s Reform UK party are racist.

   Starmer’s remarks mark some of the strongest criticisms he has made yet of Farage and his insurgent party, which leads opinion polls in Britain and is being viewed for the first time as a potential winner at the next general election, due in 2029. The premier is under intense political pressure going into the convention, facing criticism of his judgment and leadership as his government struggles to convince both voters and the party faithful it has a plan to turn the country around.

   [Read the full story here.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-28/starmer-says-farage-s-racist-policies-would-tear-uk-apart?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1OTA1MjI1NCwiZXhwIjoxNzU5NjU3MDU0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUM0FJNFNHUDlWQ1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMzU0MUJFQjhBQUY0QkUwQkFBOUQzNkI3QjlCRjI4OCJ9.5nxhr5oP4t555oylLSYtcR93nJicCFmIuX7BJ9wq1-M)

2. So one minute he’s aping them, and then the next he’s denouncing them??

3. He’s on his way out. Even his own party want someone to challenge him for leadership.

   Digital ID will be the end of starmer

4. Glass houses.

5. Labour is doing more to sow discontent

   Every day they do nothing and enact pointless policies is a day closer to a Reform Govt.

   Painting ordinary people as ‘racists” just because they open their eyes and see what is before them won’t work. It just drives people to Reform.

6. Blah blah blah blah blah. Has he not yet realised this isn’t working. He can’t beat reform just by calling them racist anymore because the word has been so overused it no longer has any meaning behind it. Maybe try actually changing people’s lives, crazy thought I know.

7. Can you post a version of this without the paywall?

8. Those policies work SO WELL for trump.

   Any fool who follows him into turd jammed economics deserve their fate. One thing, we have a better level of general education in the UK, we all still remember the brexshit bus lies, and we’re all still poorer because of it. Also we kicked out the right wing nutbags that crashed our economy for “populism”. As more tories fill reform ranks by defection, reform and tory are two sides of the same coin. Unfit to govern.

9. Ordinary non political people can count. X number of new houses eating up areas when birth rate is low for example.

10. Starmer is an arsehole

11. ………. and Starmer hasnt? the worst PM in our history….. the guy is unbelievable.

12. Yup the same language that inflames political assassinations and hatred right there.

    You can already see some crazy hearing this and deciding that murder is justified.

    You can see the sorts on reddit…the britishmemes types.

    I hoped starmer would be the antidote to this

13. has starmer not noticed, the uk is already being torn apart, somebody wake this clown up!

14. Can’t be much worse than what Labours policies are doing right now.

15. Some would say multiculturalism has already torn the UK apart

16. Don’t offer alternatives just label it apocalyptic

17. Starmer on his last legs. Now just saying Reform racist party.

    Shows they in deep water and struggling to stay afloat.

18. Calling things racist isn’t an argument. The people voting Reform want drastically reduced immigration and a large number of deportations because they think that’s what’s tearing the UK apart. 

19. Wait, hold up, if Blair’s son’s company is going to do the Digital IDs then we need an investigation. 

    We have very competent digital services teams for Government assets, look at Gateway ID and other services. We don’t need any people in the middle. Especially not ones who think it’s acceptable to enrich themselves off tax payers funds. 

20. Oh look the guy who hates British people is calling them racists

21. I mean, he’s already trying to ape Farage with his constant banging on about the boats and his “Island of strangers” rhetoric. He’s just as culpable for repeating the same attack lines in a failing attempt to win over reform voters. He’s already cooked his goose and I think we’ll have a new PM this time next year. He’s polling incredibly low, he’s massively unpopular with the general public and things like the winter fuel allowance and child benefit cap have really done for him.

    At this point nobody would believe him even when he’s telling the truth. It just seems like scaremongering, which the British public will ignore because the press are on Farages side.

22. They paint everyone who wants to stop illegal migrants entering the country as ultra right wing racists, making ordinary people even more enraged and likely to vote Reform as some kind of protest vote.

    Most people want legal immigration and GENUINE proven asylum seekers. They are not all RACISTS.

23. Yes it would starmer, but you should be doing something so people don’t keep viewing reform as a way out of this shit show.

    And no, digital ID will not solve things.

24. The UK is being torn apart by greedy billionaires, the racism is just a distraction.

25. Then stop handing him voters by doing stupid inane things like digital ID and ignoring EVERYTHING even labour supporters and elected officials are saying?? Why sabotage yourself so much to play into the hands of the opposition? Are we all really governed by feckless people?

26. I really don’t think this is going to go down how he thinks it is.

    Reform appeal to a lot more “moderate” people who are fed up of the idea of even questioning immigration being labelled as racist.

    To me, this just shows me that he’s even more out of touch than we thought.

27. …and he’s upset because that’s Labour’s job.

28. It would unironically bring British citizens together as a people. Patriotism would be at an all-time high.

29. Look, Britain has brought in far more people than it can absorb in such a short time span. It is a burden on native Britons that now have a housing shortage for one, and higher taxes and reduced benefits are resources are diverted to handle the migrant population to start. Then there are longer waiting times for NHS appointments. Then there’s quality of schools which are altered to accommodate students who aren’t as fluent in the language, perhaps at different levels in other subjects, with different needs which makes the schools less effective for their own children. Then there’s the damage to local economies that depended on tourism with hotels entirely taken up by young single men. Then we get to the net contribution to the economy from most migrants over their lifetimes, which is a loss. Then we get to preferential treatment of migrants in resources while British veterans sleep rough because they can’t access social housing. Then we get to cultural clashes. And then, after all that, can we point to racism.

    If all those other factors were taken care of, and people still wanted migrants to go, then we can claim racism.

    It will be much harder to fix all those things without drastically reducing immigration, maybe it’s even impossible. But Starmer’s government isn’t even trying to reduce the fallout from it.

30. bro you’re literally in charge of the governemnt do something to show you’re worth your weight  instead of shouting about crap

31. Starmer’s racist two-tier policies are what is tearing the country apart.

32. Stop coming up with policies that are handing him the next election on a gold encrusted velvet pillow then you fucking pillock.

33. Labour gotta be the most sketchy party ever. Kier also talks about deportations, said we’re a nation of strangers and is also making the right to remain 10 years instead of 5. By his standards that should be racist. He’s just annoyed that farage wants to tackle immigration without a digital id

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