Debunked: Did Starmer really call the far-left to ‘take up arms and go for’ Reform UK?

Debunked: Did Starmer really call the far-left to ‘take up arms and go for’ Reform UK?Credit: The Independent/ Hebe Campbell

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00:00He literally used the words, arms, take up arms and attack, go for the enemy.

00:04Reform UK's Richard Tice has accused Keir Starmer of urging the far left to take up arms and go

00:11for the enemy. But that's not actually what Keir Starmer said. Stay tuned to watch the actual

00:18moment in question. I hope when he wakes up tomorrow morning, he feels ashamed of what he

00:24is done. He's essentially given license to the far left, the likes of the masked thugs Antifa

00:31to essentially come at us, come at Nigel Farage. He literally used the words, arms, take up

00:39arms and attack, go for the enemy. Now we reached out to Reform for comment on this, but they

00:45didn't reply. Now this all started with Keir Starmer's Labour Party conference speech.

00:50So let's actually listen to that. Because whilst we must come together to fight reform

00:55with everything that this movement has, we must go into that battle armed, not just with

01:01words and condemnation, but with action. And that means tackling all the problems that they

01:06prey upon. All the problems. So Richard Tice is still doubling down on his comments and

01:13saying that language matters. And he's right, language does matter. Starmer's point was very

01:18clear. He said Labour should go into battle armed with policy, not with firearms or with weapons.

01:24centre of weapons.

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