Keir Starmer will take a swipe at Reform's "path of division" as he addresses the Labour Party conference in Liverpool later today.
The Prime Minister will warn that Britain stands at a "fork in the road" and is expected to outline what he sees as the differences between Labour's vision for Britain and Reform UK's.
Taking to the stage later today, Sir Keir is expected to say: "It is a test. A fight for the soul of our country, every bit as big as rebuilding Britain after the war, and we must all rise to this challenge," he will say, warning that the goal will not be achieved without a cost.
"We need to be clear that our path, the path of renewal, it's long, it's difficult, it requires decisions that are not cost-free or easy," he is expected to say.
"Decisions - that will not always be comfortable for our party. Yet at the end of this hard road there will be a new country, a fairer country, a land of dignity and respect."
Nigel Farage's Reform UK has attracted significant numbers of former Labour voters, according to polls, with Keir Starmer branding the party's deportation policy as "racist" at the beginning of the conference.
In his speech, the Prime Minister will add: "We can all see our country faces a choice, a defining choice.
"Britain stands at a fork in the road. We can choose decency, or we can choose division. Renewal or decline.
"A country - proud of its values, in control of its future or one that succumbs, against the grain of our history, to the politics of grievance."
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ANALYSIS: Katherine Forster outlines Keir Starmer's 'mountain to climb' ahead of keynote speech
GB News Political correspondent Katherine Forster said: "It's the Prime Minister's big moment and oh my goodness, he has a mountain to climb doesn't he. Because look at the poll ratings, he's very unpopular around the country.
"The Labour government is very unpopular just a year or so after they got that landslide. And he's pretty unpopular with people here.
"A lot of Labour members feel that the government are not left-wing enough, that they're doing all sorts of things that they didn't want or expect a Labour Government to have to do.
"Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer will simply say that they don't have the money to do all the things that they would like to do. And many Labour MPs are deeply unhappy as well, because they look at the polls, they think they're going to be out of a job in four years."
"So the Prime Minister really needs to impress with this speech."
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Wes Streeting suggests Nigel Farage is racist in fresh attack on Reform UK leader
Wes Streeting suggests Nigel Farage is racist in a fresh attack on Reform UK leader
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Wes Streeting suggests Nigel Farage is racist in a fresh attack on Reform UK leader.
Asked whether he believed Mr Farage was racist personally, Mr Streeting told Times Radio: “Let me put it this way because I don’t have a window into Nigel Farage’s heart and soul.
"I remember the leaflet that Reform put out in Scotland in the by-election that said that Anas Sarwar would prioritise the interests of the Pakistani community.
"If that leaflet directed against a proud Scot of proud Pakistani heritage was not racist, then I don’t know what is. And, if Nigel Farage allows that to go out from his party, what does that make him?"
It follows Sir Keir Starmer describing Reform’s plan for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of legal migrants as "racist", although he insisted not all Reform supporters were.
Labour forced to ask 'who their core voters really are' as new poll shows Nigel Farage winning stunning share of seats
Labour headed into their 2025 annual party conference with several damning polls suggesting Kier Starmer's premiership is under siege.
GB News spoke to Britain's top election gurus on whether Nigel Farage's Reform UK poses a real threat to the current Government ahead of 2029.
James Crouch, head of policy and public affairs at Opinium, told GB News: "Reform’s rise puts the whole party system on notice."
"Reform UK’s surge is being fuelled by both Labour and the Conservatives facing their own existential crises, and it should force all three parties to ask who their core voters really are."
Millions to be slapped with tax raid as Rachel Reeves targets VAT in Autumn Budget
Britain's middle classes face a significant financial blow as the Chancellor prepares to extend VAT to previously exempt services.
Treasury officials are actively exploring options to impose the tax on private medical insurance and financial services, according to reports
This move, which would directly affect up to eight million households that rely on private medical coverage, represents a reversal of Rachel Reeves's earlier commitment to avoid further tax increases.
The Chancellor had previously assured business leaders that last year's Budget would be a singular event, promising no additional borrowing or taxation.
Nigel Farage's Reform UK is an 'existential threat' to the NHS, says Wes Streeting
Health Secretary Wes Streeting will also take to the stage, where he is expected to outline the "existential threat" facing the NHS from Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
He will also set out social care funding plans and stress the need for NHS modernisation and the embrace of new technology.
Ahead of his speech, the Health Secretary said: "Our health service and our social care services need to change with the times, in order to ride the wave of that revolution, rather than see our people victims of it."
He told Times Radio that Nigel Farage’s party is "anti-science, anti-reason and anti-health".
Mr Streeting added: "We’ve seen Nigel Farage advocating an insurance-style system. He will check your pockets before your pulse."
Pressed on why that is a threat to the BMA, he said: "I think Reform UK is a threat to everything the BMA wants to see from the NHS.
"Similarly, do they really want in power in this country a prime minister in Nigel Farage who, when asked if he’s on the side of doctors and the medical advice they give on paracetamol to pregnant mothers who will be worried about what they’d heard, said, ‘I don’t side with anybody’.
"I mean, that’s anti-science."
Reform UK has said it is committed to keeping the NHS free at the point of delivery, as stated in its 2024 election manifesto, and has said it will “never” charge people to use the NHS.
Keir Starmer set to announce major overhaul of the NHS - 'A new chapter'
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer rehearsing his Labour Party conference keynote speech with his wife Lady Victoria Starmer
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Sir Keir Starmer will today announce a major overhaul of the NHS in his keynote address to the Labour Party conference.
The Prime Minister will promise an "online hospital" that will deliver millions of extra appointments and help cut long waiting times, as he outlines his vision for a "fairer" Britain.
The Prime Minister will outline plans for an "online hospital", NHS Online, which aims to deliver millions of extra appointments and help reduce long waiting times.
The service, which is due to launch in 2027, will allow patients to access prescriptions, book scans and tests, receive clinical advice, and manage appointments through the NHS app.
Labour claims the initiative, which the Prime Minister will describe as "a new chapter in the story of our NHS", will provide up to 8.5 million extra NHS appointments in its first three years.
UK GDP growth SLOWS to 0.3% ahead of Rachel Reeves's Autumn Budget
The UK's gross domestic product (GDP) rate is estimated to have grown by an unrevised 0.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, April to June, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This comes after an unrevised increase of 0.7 per cent between January and March, meaning the UK' economy has grown by one per cent in the first half of the year so far.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has made bolstering economic growth as central to her agenda, however has faced hurdles since the Labour Government came into power last July.
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