Starmer: Next election will be between Labour and Reform

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The prime minister says the next election will be a battle between Reform and the Labour Party, describing it as "the fight of our times". Speaking at Labour's annual conference in Liverpool on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer warns it would be a "mistake" to ignore the threat posed by Reform and dismisses claims he is fuelling the fire by making Farage the focus of his attacks. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think it's a mistake to pretend this isn't the fight of our times.

00:04I think simply ignoring it is a mistake, a political mistake.

00:08If you look across Europe, most centre-right parties are withering on the vine.

00:12That's what's happened to the Conservative Party here.

00:14This is not a UK issue. You can see it in other countries.

00:18It's a pattern. To ignore it, pretend it doesn't exist,

00:21and not run towards the fight and win the fight

00:24would be a grave mistake for our country.

00:26I love our country. I love our country. I'm proud of our country.

00:29It is a beautiful, tolerant, diverse country.

00:32It's who we are, and I'm going to fight for the country I love

00:35because I fear that we'll be torn apart by the politics of reform

00:39in a way that we have not seen in this country ever before.

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