Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage

Keir Starmer has been urged to use Brexit to beat Nigel Farage as Reform UK continue to surge ahead in the polls.

The prime minister, who voted to Remain, spent much of his first year in office avoiding any mention of the UK’s departure from the EU.

However, earlier this week he launched an outspoken attack on the “wild promises” made by Brexiteers as he urged the public not to support calls to quit Nato and the European Convention of Human Rights.

LBC presenter and co-host of the News Agents, Lewis Goodall, told BBC Newsnight explained why this could be a powerful political point.

“Farage’s great, great asset is that – pretty much unlike all the major parties in parliament – he does not have a record to defend,” he said.

“Except, of course, he does – Brexit. It is his signature contribution to British........

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