'Panic stations at Labour!' Reform UK hits back at Keir Starmer's 'extraordinary' attack on Nigel Farage

The Prime Minister said Farage’s plans to spend "billions upon billions upon billions, tens of billions of pounds, in an unfunded way" was an "exact repeat of what Liz Truss did."

Speaking during a visit to a glass factory in the North West, the Prime Minister said the Clacton MP would not have protected jobs in industries subject to tariffs from the US.

"What an extraordinary press conference. It's obviously panic stations at Labour," Yusuf jabbed.

“Keir Starmer is panicking because his awful Government is now trailing Reform by a staggering eight points in the latest YouGov poll.

"We talk about economic credibility... this Government, in their manifesto last June, promised £10billion of increased spending.

"In their actual Budget three months later they increased spending by £60bn and on their magic money tree found another £30bn to give away sovereign territory in the form of the Chagos Islands."

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"When it comes to foreign citizens, when it comes to splurging money like a drunken sailor on things that have no value to British people's lives, there's infinite money," he added.

"The fact is, when it comes to British people, we're always told by the two old parties there's no money left. When Nigel's the Prime Minister, that changes."

Meanwhile, Kevin Hollinrake, the shadow local government secretary, said the Prime Minister has "problems wherever he looks”.

He told Sky News: “The public’s lost interest in Labour. I mean, I don’t think they were ever popular at the despatch box – we were just unpopular, and we’ve got a big job to do on that particular score, but I believe we can do it.

He continued: "But also Reform, the 'red wall' as we call it, the working class voters, have completely lost faith in Keir Starmer and (Chancellor) Rachel Reeves and others, not least because of the disgraceful stripping away of the winter fuel allowance."

Farage posted on X: "The Prime Minister is resorting to dirty tricks borrowed from the 2016 referendum campaign to attack me.

"This is Project Fear 2.0."