Farage 'greatest threat' to livelihoods says greater threat to livelihoods

Nigel Farage is 'greatest threat' to livelihoods, says Chancellor - as protester interrupts her Labour conference speech

The Chancellor has branded Nigel Farage’s agenda the "single greatest threat" to British people’s livelihoods as her Labour conference speech was interrupted by a pro-Palestine protester.

Rachel Reeves accused the Reform UK leader of pushing “falsehoods” and “easy answers”.

It comes as polls show Mr Farage is on course to be Prime Minister, with his party overtaking Labour with voters.

"The single greatest threat to our way of life and to the living standards of working people is the agenda of Nigel Farage and the Reform party,” Ms Reeves told the annual political conference in Liverpool on Monday.


Rachel from Accounts would do better by trying a spot of honesty about the political difficulties she faces. Easy to say of course, but not so easy for any member of her absurdly dishonest government.

Yet Reeves could do better and admit the difficulty her party has with spending and the resistance to cutting back even on waste, because everyone knows there are vast swathes of waste to be scythed from government spending.

 
Politically though the Chancellor can't admit the monumental scale of it. Until her party grasps this problem, the political mire is where they'll stay. Everyone knows it too, apart from Starmer as far as we can tell.

Unfortunately for Reeves there is no point to being Chancellor of the Exchequer in this government. There is nothing to achieve, the political restraints are far too strong. Not that her failure isn't deserved, as far as we can tell it is fully deserved, but there is a certain mild poignancy to it.