Nigel Farage’s plan to ‘humiliate’ Keir Starmer so the PM ‘can’t hold on any longer’ | Politics | News
Nigel Farage has set his sights on Keir Starmer. (Image: Getty)
Nigel Farage has told frustrated voters Keir Starmer “must go” after targeting Labor’s historic heartlands. The Reform Britain leader said the Prime Minister’s “humiliation” at the ballot box would make it almost impossible for him to last much longer.
And Mr Farage announced he would face Labor in the party’s strongholds in the North West and North East England. The leader, who is ahead in opinion polls, is urging voters to see the May 7 local elections as a referendum on the Prime Minister, branding him the “most unpopular” in history.
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The Brexit champion has pointed to the winter fuel rebate debacle and “tax raids on older people” as reasons for Labour’s declining popularity.
Labor faces a “very significant threat” as it loses voters to Reform on the right and the Greens on the left, pollsters have warned.
Mr Farage, who introduced Reform’s new slogan for local elections as “Vote Reform, get Starmer out”, told the Daily Express: “Basically, if Labor suffers humiliation in England, Wales and Scotland, it will be almost impossible for it to last until the end of May.”
Asked whether Sir Keir’s succession would be even worse for Britain, the Reform UK leader said: “The danger is always there.
“This is the most unpopular Prime Minister in living memory, the most unpatriotic Prime Minister in history; he must go.
“He constantly breaks his promises, does things that are not included in the manifesto, such as tax raids on the elderly, withdrawal of winter fuel allowance; he does not deserve to be in this situation.
“Voting to get rid of it is a huge incentive and let’s face it the only party in England, Scotland and Wales that can beat it outright is Reform. The Conservatives are not in this race.”
Labor is expected to come third in the Welsh Senedd, which the party has controlled since its founding, and is expected to lose to the Scottish National Party north of the border.
Labor also holds a majority of around 5,000 seats in borough, district and district councils contested across England.
And Mr Farage told the Express: “I’m in the north of England today, I’m on a county council today and Labor has 60% of all the seats and whether it’s in Lancashire, whether it’s in the traditional heartlands of the North East, whether it’s in the valleys of South Wales, you know, these are places that they’ve held rock solid for over 100 years.
“So the fact that Reformation takes on Labor in historic centers is hugely important at every level.
“Obviously, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex are different electorates, but you know, the Conservatives tried to delay elections for two years in a row in these three council cases. “They conspired with the Labor Government to stop people voting for two years in a row and only our legal action changed that.
“I would say it gives us a bit of a head start; they may be different voters but their concerns are the same. It’s about the economic, social and moral decline of the country; it’s about a nation that has lost the sense of what it is, displaced beyond recognition by mass immigration.”
In the latest YouGov poll published on Wednesday, Reform polled with 24%, five points ahead of the Conservatives.
The Labor Party is struggling with the Greens with just 16 percent of the vote.
But the More in Common poll showed Nigel Farage’s party at 30%, 10 points ahead of Labour.
Reform UK unveils new slogan urging voters to sack Starmer (Image: UK Reformation)
A year ago Mr Farage said his party needed to show it could be trusted.
Reform then won nine councils by promising to cut waste, including net zero projects and diversity schemes, to keep council tax bills low.
Party officials said the average increase across these authorities for the next fiscal year will be 3.94 percent, close to the level of inflation.
By contrast, Labor councils would increase tax by an average of 4.71 per cent, Tory councils by 4.9 per cent and Liberal Democrat councils by 5.49 per cent, they said.
And Mr Farage believes council chiefs have shown the party can succeed. “Local Government has never been more scrutinised. I can say we have managed to save £300m from overspending across the 10 majority councils we have run, keeping council tax increases lower than other parties. A year in, I can say we are off to a good start.”
