Keir Starmer's 'bizarre' attack on Nigel Farage dismantled by Tory MP: 'Britons can make their own judgement!'

During his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference, the Prime Minister claimed Mr Farage has nothing "positive" to say about our country as he "doesn’t like Britain and doesn’t believe in Britain".

Sir Keir said: "When was the last time that you heard Nigel Farage say anything positive about Britain’s future? "He can’t, he doesn’t like Britain and doesn’t believe in Britain."

Offering his verdict on the attack, Mr Fuller told GB News: "One of the first rules in politics that you learn is that you frame the choices you want to pick the opponent that you want.

"And it's clear that Keir Starmer's bizarre attack was him trying to frame the choice as between being between Labour and Reform, because he thinks Reform, notwithstanding what their pole position now, is an easier opponent to beat in the long term."

Delivering his own verdict on the speech, GB News host Eamonn Holmes said that the address was "out of touch" with the public, and was more a message "for the conference".

Eamonn argued: "I thought although his performance on stage was was very good, his message was very bad, it was wrong.

"I thought that he's really out of touch with what the general public are thinking. It was a message for conference, but not a message that the country was waiting to hear."

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Agreeing with Eamonn, the Tory MP responded: "Well, I think that's right, the British public have known about Nigel Farage for many years now, so they're perfectly able to make their own judgements about Nigel Farage.

"They don't need the Prime Minister telling them what to think about one particular leader, what they wanted to hear from the Prime Minister, who can make decisions right now on their behalf, was what is the Government doing about the cost of living?"

Criticising the speech further, Mr Fuller said Sir Keir's address was "unseemly": "I think it was a really unseemly speech from a Prime Minister that didn't address the issues of the British public.

"He thanked businesses, but he whacked businesses with a huge amount of tax increases last year, which is now working its way through to price increases that people are feeling when they go to the supermarket, do their grocery shop, or when they look at their energy bills, and the Prime Minister didn't spend any time talking about that."

Pressed by host Ellie Costello on Labour's use of "language" against Mr Farage, the Tory MP argued that "abusing" opponents is "not smart politics".

Mr Fuller concluded: "Abusing your political opponents is not smart politics. There are legitimate reasons to point at Reform and say where they've got things wrong, but those should be about the policies of Reform.

"I'm a Conservative, and Reform seems to me to be far too keen on raising benefits. We, as the Conservative Party, want to rein in welfare reforms.

"You could talk about their ability to think of policies, and yes, on immigration, it's perfectly reasonable to have differences of view on some of the policies that Reform have.

"But that doesn't mean making these broad claims, and then a few hours later, having to retract them, say no, I didn't really mean it.

"That kind of hit and run rhetoric is very damaging to British politics."