UK
Starmer Says He’s Fighting Farage’s Reform, Not His Own Party
Keir Starmer at a community center in Hertfordshire, on Feb. 10.
Photographer: Suzanne Plunkett/WPA/Getty ImagesKeir Starmer brushed aside divisions within the UK’s governing Labour Party, saying his main battle is with Nigel Farage’s poll-leading Reform UK.
A day after surviving a call from Labour’s Scottish leader, Anas Sarwar, for him to quit, Britain’s prime minister sought to move on from the drama within his own party with a pledge that he would “never walk away” from the mandate to change the country that he was given just 19 months ago in a landslide election win.