'He's out of touch!' Nigel Farage challenges 'unpatriotic' Keir Starmer to visit working men’s club

At an event on Tuesday, the Brexit supremo will tell supporters: "Starmer has no connection with working people, no connection with their lived experience."

He will say: “What does Starmer know about people getting up at 5am to go to work, pay their taxes and still not have enough to pay the bills?

"While a family next door to them doesn’t work and has more money in their pocket. It’s not right or fair.

"Reform will always support working people and not turn their backs on them.”

The broadside attack comes as Farage prepares to commit to scrapping the two-child benefit cap and reinstating the Winter Fuel Allowance.

Both policies have caused major headaches for the Prime Minister, with Starmer last year stripping the whip from seven benefit cap rebels and later taking a hit in the polls for stripping the Winter Fuel Allowance from 10 million pensioners.

And Starmer recently admitted that Reform UK is now Labour's main challenger ahead of the 2029 General Election.

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“The Conservatives are not our principal opponent. Reform are our main rivals for power,” he told Labour MPs at an anxious private meeting.

“We have to be clear that every opportunity [Farage] has had in this parliament to back working people, he’s voted against. Telling the workers at Jaguar Land Rover they deserve to go bust.

“A state-slashing, NHS-privatising Putin apologist. Without a single patriotic bone in his body. We will take the fight to him. We will fight as Labour.”

Despite struggling to win over trade union fat cats, Farage is courting the support of grassroots members after backing the nationalisation of British Steel and refusing to criticise Unite's Birmingham bin strikes.

Opinion polls show a major switch to the populist party following the 2024 General Election.

After Reform UK snatched Runcorn & Helsby from Labour earlier this month, the populist party surged to first place on 29 per cent.

Labour followed on 22 per cent, the Liberal Democrats on 17 per cent and the Conservatives on 16 per cent — their lowest ever rating with the pollster.

It is the first time YouGov ranked the Tories in fourth place since the twilight days of Theresa May's premiership in 2019.

Farage is expected to be joined at this week's event alongside Runcorn & Helsby MP Sarah Pochin and his newly elected council leaders.

The Clacton MP will brand the Prime Minister as “one of the most unpatriotic Prime Ministers in our history", pointing to immigration and Brexit as key pillars of his alleged betrayal of the British people.

However, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner this weekend described Farage as a “snake-oil salesman” who could not be trusted.

She told LBC: “He can say he’s going to give jam tomorrow but with all things Nigel Farage, [the] snake-oil salesman, it’s not real, and he’s not said where the money’s coming from, and therefore, I wouldn’t believe a word he says on it.”

A No10 spokesman said: “Nigel Farage can pose as a man of the people all he likes but his record speaks for itself: fawning over Putin, opposing employment rights and proposing the abolition of the NHS.”

He added: “The PM grew up in a family where there was a lot of love but not always enough money, which is why he is determined to deliver security for working people through our Plan for Change and trade deals that are good for jobs, bills and borders.”