Starmer Urged To Do More To Tackle Reform: 'We Are At A Very Dangerous Moment'

Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer needs a stronger plan to defeat the “existential threat” from populism, a former Labour strategist has warned.

Chris Powell, the advertising strategist who worked on Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide victory and brother to Starmer’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, said there was a “new and terrifying” problem facing the UK.

Writing for the Guardian, he said Nigel Farage’sReform UK could represent a danger to democracy and national institutions.