US EditionBritish Politics Is Choice Between Labour and Reform UK, Says Keir Starmer
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer criticized Nigel Farage and Reform UK as the main political choice ahead of upcoming elections in the UK.
- Starmer attacked Farage’s unfunded spending plans, comparing them to Liz Truss’s 2022 mini-budget that unsettled financial markets.
- Reform UK aims to raise the threshold at which income tax begins to £20,000, eliminate the cap on child benefits for families with more than two children, and reinstate payments to assist with winter fuel costs.
- The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates the tax allowance policy could cost £50 billion to £80 billion yearly, while polls show Reform UK gaining ground.
- Rising Reform UK support, especially in regions with high street decline, suggests growing working-class voter discontent and electoral challenges for Labour.
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Starmer is making a mistake by choosing Reform as his main enemy
The great prime ministerial paradox is that Sir Keir Starmer sits in Downing Street as one of the safest leaders in recent history, given his comfortable majority, a divided opposition on the right, and the fact that the next election is at least three years off. Yet Labour is febrile and uncertain of its leader.He has worked hard in this past year in a tumult of activity to define himself on the world stage, offering olive branches to European …
Starmer acknowledges Farage’s Reform UK is main Labour rival
Keir Starmer said Britain’s main opposition Conservative Party is in decline and that the choice for voters is now between his governing Labour Party and the right-wing populist Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Starmer Attacks Farage—A Last Stand Before the Fall?
Labour’s Keir Starmer did a press conference at a factory on Thursday, with his top button undone and his sleeves rolled up, in a blatant attempt to portray himself as the representative of Britain’s working class. The event was a response to Nigel Farage’s speech on Tuesday in which he laid out how a possible future Reform government could end decades of betrayal by establishment parties, promising to offer genuine support for families and to s…
Reform UK to Accept Cryptocurrency Donations, First Political Party in Europe
Reform UK, the U.K. political party led by Nigel Farage, is set to become the first European political party to accept cryptocurrency donations, according to a blog post.The donations will be facilitated by Radom, a U.K.-based crypto payments company that has VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider) licenses for its crypto infrastructure.The blog post by Radom claims that the average crypto donation is $6,000 -- over 30 times that of a typical fiat…
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