Starmer believes that Farage “is a real opponent” in the new political scene

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Mr. Kerr Starmer told his colleagues that he now sees Nigel Faraj’s reform in the United Kingdom as his “real opponent”, at the end of the week in which he sharpened his migration message and faced accusations that he was using the language of the extreme right.

The Prime Minister told his team that he believed that Kimi Badnosh’s governors may reach the “end of the road” and that Britain could witness a major reorganization of its policies.

A senior work official said Curtain He will be ready to discuss Farage before the upcoming elections, as polls indicate that the public also believes that Report UK as the most reliable opposition to his labor government. “I accept the show,” Faraj said on Friday.

Despite the threat of reform and its criticism by its deputies of the planned social welfare discounts, Starmer insisted that the UK’s benefit bill must be controlled. The colleagues also told that it is not about to amend the cabinet.

On Friday, Starmer concluded a two -day visit to Albania, during which he tried to tighten his migration migration, before the European Union and European Union Summit in London on Monday.

The Prime Minister knows that Farage and Badenoch will imagine the promised “re -appointment” of the post -British relations from the European Union as a “surrender” of Brussels, and will seek to draw a plan to move the proposed youth as a return to the free movement.

Badenoush, who said that Britain should not be “supportive” in the talks, promised to “restore any legislative or judicial powers handed over to the European Union by the current government.”

Starmer feels more anxious about Farage, noting that while Badenoch faces every week through the House of Commons of the House of Representatives, his “real opponent” is the reform in the UK, whose five deputies are currently a small rebellion that is waiting for parliamentary growth.

He wilted from Badnouch, who was subjected to his party in the local English elections for this month, and its decision to criticize the commercial deals by Starmer with India and the United States in the past two weeks.

“Now without knowing what is in the deal with the European Union, Starmer told the” Financial Times “newspaper. “The only blessing of savings is that no one in Europe takes it seriously so as not to make a blind difference.”

Starmer claims that none of its European interlocutors, who met in Tirana at the European Political Society Summit on Friday, believes that Badnouch will be in a position to reflect security and commercial security with the European Union that will be launched on Monday.

And IPSOS/Mori reconnaissance This month was found that the British public is now more vulnerable to the UK in the UK (37 percent) as a major opposition party, before conservatives (33 percent).

The latest survey of YouGov showed the Farage Party of Opinion Party by 28 percent, with the Labor Party in 23 years, the 18 conservatives and liberal democrats 16. The Farage Party won more than 670 seats in this month council, all of whom surveyed the conservatives in Harts, traditional conservatives such as Kent.

Starmer has developed plans this week to tighten the rules of legal migration, claiming that Britain risk becoming a “island of strangers”, a phrase that the critics claimed reverberation For the famous “blood river” speech in Inok Powell. The Downing Street has prompted the claim.

Starmer is also discussed with the third countries whose name is not revealed a plan to create “return centers” to allow Britain to quickly deport the failed asylum seekers, though this though Embarrassingly Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that his country will not be part of it.

He did not do the position of the most stringent prime minister on immigration and his decision to move in the controversial luxury cuts – which are widely seen as hunting to the right – did nothing to arrest his low rankings on personal approval, with workers’ voters turning it in large numbers.

A new survey was published on Friday The classification of clear discrimination has decreased from Starmer 12 points in the month to -46, its lowest level ever, including a decrease in 34 points among the people who voted the Labor Party in the elections last year.

Meanwhile, he is still badly subject to Varage’s criticism that he did not put illegal immigration under control; The UK Reform Leader called this week to declare a “national emergency” due to high levels of channels.

Although Starmer pledged to “destroy gangs” that feed the transfer of asylum seekers via the channel, 2025 witnessed the highest levels of the registered small boat crossing.

A total of 1,2,700 people reached small boats this year, an increase of 33 percent in the same period last year, and Starmer was warned by colleagues not to expect any early discounts of the numbers.

The governmental informed admit that the problem is “settlement”, that the criminal gangs are well established, and that extensive international cooperation to address the problem will take time to achieve results.

There are also concerns about a significant increase in expatriates from the Horn of Africa, including from Eritrea and Somalia, and that immigrants from these countries are ready to bear greater risks to reaching Britain, and crowding in boats.

As for Starmer, this reminder is that determining something is not the same as dealing with it, whether it addresses high levels of clear migration or trying to defeat the political parties that thrive on them.