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Sir Keir Starmer denied that Nigel Farage was “living rent free” in his head after launching a serious assault on the Reform UK chief. The Prime Minister used a speech at a glass manufacturing unit within the North West to hit out on the Clacton MP.

He claimed Mr Farage would do the identical as ex-Tory PM Liz Truss, who sparked an financial meltdown along with her mini-budget, and insisted he wished to “protect” working folks from Reform. But Sir Keir was pressed on the period of time he was spending enthusiastic about the arch-Brexiteer.

The Prime Minister was requested by GB News’s political editor Christopher Hope: “Nigel Farage has five MPs, you’ve got 403, are you panicking because Reform are so far ahead in the polls, is he living rent free in your brain?”

He replied: “I’ve set out my divide. I think the single most important thing is to make sure we stabilise our economy and build on that strong foundation the future of our country and that is what we’re doing.

“We’re seeing the early indicators of that, development is up, the best within the G7 this 12 months, rates of interest have come down 4 occasions. So we’re starting to indicate what occurs once you stabilise the financial system.

“And I want to protect working people from Nigel Farage because I want to protect them from what he will do which is exactly the same as Liz Truss and will have a direct impact on their lives.”

In his speech, Sir Keir stated 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”.

It comes after Reform earlier this week pledged to present again the winter gasoline allowance to all pensioners and axe the two-child profit cap in a transfer to attraction to conventional working class Labour voters.

The PM stated of Mr Farage: “Can you trust him? Can you trust him with your future? Can you trust him with your jobs? Can you trust him with your mortgages, your pensions, your bills? And he gave the answer on Tuesday. A resounding no.”