Labour warned they will ‘get its head kicked in’ by Reform as ‘its game over’

Lord Maurice Glasman, who founded the influential Blue Labour group has warned Sir Keir Starmer “its game over if they don’t change” as millions are losing faith in Labour.

On Thursday the country will go to polling stations to cast their ballots, and it is expected that the leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage will win hundreds of new seats in major gains.

Lord Glasman has issued a warning to Labour that they will “get its head kicked in” by Farage’s party in the local elections.

Speaking to the Observer Lord Glasman said, “It’s game over if they don’t change. People are losing faith in government, in the most general way, and someone has to stop that.

“Labour must be a pro-worker, patriotic party, not talking gibberish about diversity.”

Starmer has announced ahead of Thursday’s local elections fresh plans to tackle legal migration as Labour is expecting a severe bruising from Reform UK.

The government’s new “white paper” will investigate how to close the loophole of foreign students coming to the UK using graduate visas to then only take up low paid jobs.

Labour is hoping that by cutting migration this could reduce support for Reform as Farage is forecast to gain hundreds of council seats.

A Home Office source said, “We’ve made a really strong commitment that the Home Secretary wants to reduce net migration. We will use the immigration white paper as a tool for that.

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has said it is not about immigration, but who is going to “fix the bins.”

Badenoch has laid out her local election pledge and said that the Conservatives must “fight for every single vote” to “”remind people about our record and how well we have done at local government level.

“This is not a referendum on national issues, but local ones,” she said.

“I’ve been travelling all around the country, and one of the councillors I was with, we were on a doorstep, and he showed a leaflet of Reform, saying ‘we’re going to stop the boats’. That’s not what people are voting on Thursday,” she told ITV.

“We have said that we are going to tackle immigration, but this week’s elections are about who’s going to fix the roads and pick up the bins.”