To Labour conference, where a number of conversations are being dominated by another political party: Reform UK. New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has had her first few weeks in the job dominated by the small boats crisis and concerns about immigration – announcing yesterday that she will toughen up Labour’s migration policy. But that wasn’t all: the Labour politician didn’t hold back when it came to the subject of Nigel Farage…
Slamming the Reform UK leader as ‘worse than a racist’, Mahmood revealed during an interview with the Spectator’s Michael Gove that members of her family had been branded ‘f***ing P***s’ in recent weeks. But the Home Secretary didn’t quite agree with Sir Keir Starmer that Farage’s plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain were ‘racist’. Mahmood conceded that ‘t