Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

Prime minister lambasts Nigel Farage and the politics of Reform in combative Labour conference speech Keir Starmer has warned that Britain faces an era-defining choice between Labour and the populist right, as he launched a scathing attack on Nigel Farage, saying the Reform leader neither “liked or believed in Britain”. In a speech that drew the battle lines for the next general election, the prime minister said the UK stood at a fork in the road where “we can choose decency, we can choose division, renewal or decline”. Continue reading...