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No, Keir Starmer Did Not Tell Labour To 'Take Up Arms Against The Enemy'

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02.10.2025

Keir Starmer and Richard Tice

Richard Tice claimed repeatedly today that Keir Starmer urged the Labour Party to “take up arms and go against the enemy” earlier this week.

But this is demonstrably not true, as footage of the prime minister’s keynote speech to delegates at his party’s annual conference proves.

The Reform UK deputy leader told Sky News that the prime minister “essentially given license to the far-left, the likes of Antifa, to essentially come at us, come at Nigel Farage.”

Antifa is a MAGA term to describe anti-fascists.

Tice insisted: “He literally used the words, ‘take up arms and go against the enemy’. It’s the most extraordinary language.

“If we used that sort of language against our political opponents, we’d have had the police knocking on the door, it’s just outrageous and totally unbecoming of a prime minister of the United Kingdom.”

When the Sky presenter challenged the claim that Starmer had been “inciting violence” against Farage, Tice replied: “It’s........

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