Nigel Farage accused Sir Keir Starmer of being “terrified” of him after the PM launched a major attack yesterday. The Reform UK leader said the Prime Minister mentioned him 16 times in his speech at a glass factory in the North West.
Speaking at a cryptocurrency conference in Las Vegas, Mr Farage said: “Keir Starmer, our socialist Prime Minister is terrified. Do you know he mentioned me 16 times today in a speech. I’m living rent-free inside his head.”
It comes as Reform is riding high in national opinion polls after its victories in the local elections.
Mr Farage earlier this week moved to outflank Labour with its traditional working-class supporters with a series of policy announcements.
He revealed that his insurgent party would restore winter fuel payments for all pensioners and scrap the two-child benefit cap if it takes power.
In his speech yesterday, Sir Keir said Mr 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”.
He insisted he wanted to “protect” working people from what Reform would do.
Mr Farage had pitched Reform UK as the “the party of working people” and accused Sir Keir of having no connection to the working class.
Sir Keir rejected this, saying: “I know what it means to work 10 hours a day in a factory five days a week, and I know that because that is what my dad did every single working day of his life, and that’s what I grew up with.
“So I don’t need lessons from Nigel Farage about the issues that matter most to working people in this country.”
But the Prime Minster faced a series of difficult questions from the media including whether Mr Farage was “living rent free” in his head.
