cancel email WhatsApp link share Share bookmark SaveSir Keir Starmer has decided to become more aggressive than ever before in the fight against Nigel Farage and Reform UK. For the first time, he has branded the right-wing populist party as outright racist, because of its plan to deport legal migrants who do not earn enough to qualify for a work visa. Talking about the Reform policy of revoking “indefinite leave to remain” which was unveiled last week, the Prime Minister told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg: “I do think it is a racist policy, I do think it is immoral and needs to be called out for what it is.”He has decided to frame the next general election, likely to come in 2029, as a battle between mainstream politics and the populist insurgents, saying: “This is a fight about who we are as a country.”Follow The i Paper’s live blog for the latest updates.