Sir Keir Starmer will attempt to take on Nigel Farage in a major speech today. Speaking at the Global Progressive Action Conference in London, the Prime Minister will insist progressives must โ€œlook ourselves in the mirror and recognise where weโ€™ve allowed our parties to shy away from peopleโ€™s concernsโ€.

He will admit the concerns of ordinary people on uncontrolled immigration, saying: โ€œFor too many years itโ€™s been too easy for people to come here, slip into the shadow economy and remain here illegally.”

Sir Keir will add: โ€œIt is not compassionate left-wing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages. But the simple fact that every nation needs to have control over its borders.โ€

He will also call for “patriotic renewal”, saying: โ€œThis is the defining political choice of our times: a politics of predatory grievance, preying on the problems of working people. Using that infrastructure of divisionโ€ฆ against the politics of patriotic renewal.

โ€œRooted in communities, building a better country. Brick by brick, from the bottom-up โ€“ including everyone in the national story. Difference under the same flag.โ€

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