A senior Reform UK official has warned Sir Keir Starmer that he is putting “lives at risk” after he has publicly branded Nigel Farage’s migration policies as “racist.”
Gawain Towler who is a member of Reform’s board pointed out that the assassination of the US political commentator Charlie Kirk and the murders of Sir David Amess and Jo Cox that words can put lives at risk.
Towler said, “Words have consequences, Sir Keir, and in a climate where politicians face unprecedented threats, your reprehensible slur isn’t just political theatre; it’s playing with fire.”
He sent Starmer a warning, “Your words endanger lives.”
The Prime Minister has triggered fury as he said Reform’s plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain for asylum seekers is “racist.”
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Starmer told the BBC in an interview, “I do think that it is a racist policy. I do think it is immoral. It needs to be called out for what it is.”
On Sunday evening the Chancellor Rachel Reeves backed Starmer saying, “I think it is a racist policy.
“People support the Reform party for all sorts of reasons, but this policy is a racist policy.”
The Express reported that Towler said the US Secret Service research in assassinations on politicians demonstrates “why Starmer’s words are so perilous,” because murderers can sometimes see themselves as “saviours.”
Towler said that Farage has received death threats, adding, “After Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10, 2025, shot at a Utah university event, with suspect Tyler James Robinson arrested, Farage revealed explicit death threats against him on social media, including TikTok calls for his killing.
“Yet, Metropolitan Police told him such threats aren’t actionable, despite the post-Kirk context.
“This smacks of selective enforcement, quick to probe social media ‘hate’ but lax on threats to those perceived to be on the right. Words like Starmer’s fuel this fire, yet police inaction exemplifies the two-tier system Farage decries.”
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