Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned Tuesday the UK faced a “battle for the soul of the country”, as he made an impassioned plea against the rise of the hard right.

During the keynote address at Labour’s annual conference, Starmer sought to allay questions over his embattled leadership by defending a multicultural Britain and upping his attacks on the anti-immigrant Reform UK party.

“I will fight with every breath I have — fight for working people, fight for the tolerant, decent, respectful Britain I know,” he told the gathering in Liverpool, northwest England.

He stressed that the UK “stands at a fork in the road” between “renewal” offered by Labour, elected to power in July last year, or “grievance” put forward by Reform, led by Nigel Farage, which is surging in popularity.

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