UK PM Starmer warns Farage's 'fantasy' fiscal plans would crash the economy


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  • Thursday, 29 May 2025

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a local mechanics business, following the British government's announcement of investments to maintain roads across the UK, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Britain, March 24, 2025. REUTERS/Chris Radburn/Pool/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that Nigel Farage would crash the economy if his Reform UK party ever won power, describing his tax and spending plans as a fantasy in a speech attacking the man who has become Labour's chief threat in the polls.

Starmer's Labour Party suffered a bruising set of local election results earlier this month after less than a year in power, losing ground to Reform, which also now leads national opinion polls.

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