Keir Starmer accuses Reform UK of 'fawning over Putin'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Labour chose an area of Derbyshire with a reputation for having the worst pothole problem in England as the location for the launch, in which Starmer accused the Conservative-controlled Derbyshire county council of being responsible for the roads and anti-social behaviour.
54% : These included the NHS, workers' rights and national security.
49% : Referring to Reform's civil war involving the MP Rupert Lowe and Farage, Starmer said the party "says it wants to run the country" but "can't even run itself". Turning to the voting record of Reform MPs, he said: "They talk the language of workers' rights.
42% : Farage made 17 appearances on the Russian state-funded RT between 2010 and 2014 and while an MEP for Ukip and the Brexit party his parties several times aligned with hard-right parties in the European parliament to vote against EU motions that were critical of Russia.
40% : Farage also said that EU and Nato "provoked" Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding eastwards.

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