Keir Starmer goes head-to-head with Nick Ferrari

Fresh off a confidence-boosting Labour Conference, Sir Keir Starmer sits down with LBC's Nick Ferrari to take a final grilling before he returns to Downing Street.

Sir Keir was asked whether Britain is broken, when Angela Rayner could expect to return to the fold, and about Palestinian statehood... before conversation turned to his political rival Nigel Farage.

The Prime Minister denied being "obsessed" with the Reform leader, despite spending much of his speech at the Labour party conference attacking him.

Starmer accused Farage of “not liking” Britain and that Reform's politics are one of "grievance and chaos.”

He also stated that the Clacton-on-Sea MP does not want to fix the small boats crisis - but instead wants to "feed off" the issue for political gain.

In an exclusive interview at the conference, Nick Ferrari pressed the PM on whether he was "obsessed" with Mr Farage - a claim the Reform UK leader has previously made.

In response, the Prime Minister said: "He says a lot of things that I don't agree with. "I am concerned to make the argument and I will, on behalf of the country that I love, this tolerant, beautiful, diverse country where we pull together as a country.

"I am deeply concerned about Reform because I think they will toxically divide our country and rip it apart. "And I'm up for that fight because I think it is the fight of our times. It goes to the soul of who we are as a country."

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