❓WHAT HAPPENED: Senior members of Britain’s Labour Party government denounced Nigel Farage and his Reform Party as the “single greatest threat to the way of life” of Britons at their party conference.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Nigel Farage and the Reform Party, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, and other Labour Party leaders.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Labour Party conference in Liverpool, England, on September 29, 2025.
💬KEY QUOTE: “We must call his scheme to round up and deport our French, our Indian, our Caribbean neighbours who already have indefinite leave to remain what it is. It is racist.” – David Lammy
🎯IMPACT: Lammy’s comments sparked debate over immigration policies and accusations of racism within British politics.
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, and other senior members of Britain’s governing Labour Party denounced Nigel Farage and his Reform Party at their annual party conference in Liverpool, England, on Monday, as they collapse in the polls and Farage’s populists solidify a consistent lead.
Lammy, who has previously described President Donald J. Trump as a “neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath” and “tyrant,” said Farage “wraps himself in our flag, but his policies don’t match British values.” A son of Guyanese immigrants, Lammy took particular umbrage with Farage’s plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR)—equivalent to lawful permanent residence in the U.S.—after just five years, to prevent the unprecedented “Boriswave” mass migration under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson from becoming permanent and unleashing an even greater wave of chain migration through so-called “family reunification.”
“We must call his scheme to round up and deport our French, our Indian, our Caribbean neighbours who already have indefinite leave to remain what it is: It is racist,” Lammy insisted. He was echoing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who had told the BBC the previous day that Reform’s immigration policy was “racist” and “immoral.”
Chancellor Reeves, whose position is roughly equivalent to U.S. Treasury Secretary in the British Cabinet, went even further, declaring: “The single greatest threat to the way of life and to the living standards of working people is the agenda of Nigel Farage and the Reform Party.”
She Reform of pushing “falsehoods” and “easy answers” to Britain’s ongoing immigration crisis, claiming that, by moving to deport illegals and rescind the residency of legal immigrants who are a net drain on the public finances, they are “willing they are to tear communities and families apart.”
Labour’s furious denunciation of Reform comes as the party is consistently outpolling both Labour and the previously governing Conservatives (Tories) nationally. Labour’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is now the most unpopular in British history, with a net approval rating of negative 66.
Chancellor calls Nigel Farage’s Reform party the “single greatest threat” to our way of life, adding it is “not on the side of working people”.https://t.co/4Q5sIdjiI9
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