Keir Starmer Skewers Nigel Farage Over Reports Liz Truss Is Now Advising Reform UK

Keir Starmer has skewered Nigel Farage amid reports that Liz Truss is advising Reform UK.

The former prime minister – who only lasted 49 days in No.10 after her mini-Budget crashed the economy – has held talks with Farage over how to reform the state, according to The Times.

At prime minister’s questions, Farage called on Starmer to declare a “national emergency” over the scale of illegal immigration to the UK.

But in reply, the PM attacked Reform UK’s MPs for voting with the Conservatives against the government’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which aims to target the people smuggling gangs.

Starmer said: “What did he and his party do? Did they support those extra measures to actually smash the gangs? No, they went into the lobby with this lot in their new coalition to vote against them.

“And let’s be clear what a vote for his party means. It means a vote to charge for the NHS, it means a pro-Putin foreign policy and a vote against workers’ rights.

“Now we hear he’s recruited Liz Truss as his new top adviser as he was cheering on the mini-Budget.”