Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference on December 4, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.

A Reform UK government would “tear” the country apart, Keir Starmer has claimed in one of his most outspoken attacks on Nigel Farage yet.

Speaking to The Economist, the prime minister warned that the party – which is currently leading in the polls – would “tear apart our country with their propositions for not actually respecting the tolerant, diverse country that we are”.

He added: “They’ve got no ideas on the economy whatsoever.

“And my worry is, and this is how history tells us, is that a rightwing proposition like that, with fantastical ideas, leaning towards Russia, if it gets into power, it will find that its policies don’t work, and it won’t become more progressive, it won’t nudge towards the centre, it’ll be go to the right, to the right, to the right.

“We’ve not faced that in this country ever in this form, and it is the political fight of our times........

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