Starmer’s Main Weapon Against Farage May Also End Up a Rival

Shortly after Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Shabana Mahmood as the UK’s Home Secretary in September, she set out her stall to a packed room at the Labour Party’s annual conference.

In the audience was her father, who wept as the 45-year-old recalled a childhood incident in which the family — which has Pakistani-Muslim heritage — had been hounded out of a local park with racist slurs.