Keir Starmer sent 3-word warning after Reform council leader attacked

Sir Keir Starmer has been sent a three-word warning after Reform UK's leader of Warwickshire County Council was attacked on Friday. Belinda de Lucy, a former Brexit Party MEP and Reform's education and families spokesperson, told our podcast, the Daily Expresso: "Labour's plan is clearly working. I can only imagine they witnessed what happened to Charlie Kirk in America, and the rhetoric used against him to incite that horrific assassination, and thought, 'Oh, we'll have some of that here.' I think it's entirely deliberate. I think it's the only tactic they can use against the vast majority of Brits who will not surrender their country, [to] the unholy alliance of globalism, socialism, and Islamism that's going on."

She added: "I think they have no arguments left, so they want to terrify people into staying indoors, frighten people into [not] publicly speaking out in support of Reform. It won't work. It hasn't scared me off yet. I feel enormously for George Finch, and I've met him.

"A really lovely young man. Incredibly brave.

"You can imagine, as a teenager, putting your head above the parapet in the kind of climate of hate in schools and universities, towards Reform at the moment.

"An incredibly brave thing to do. He's a hero for the young generation."

Councillor George Finch, 19, was branded a "racist" and a "fascist" during the assault on Friday night.

Ms de Lucy said: "The man who attacked him, he mirrored the same rhetoric that Keir Starmer has been using, David Lammy has been using, Jack Polanski from the Green Party has been using.

"He can't get enough of the word fascist, fascist, fascist.

"That's all he comes up with. And it feels like a cult that unless you belong, you are then the enemy, unless you adhere to it.

"But I'm telling you, it means we are doing something right, because we are upsetting all the right people, the establishment that wants to completely unravel England and the UK, and make it in their own new image."

Sir Keir said during his conference speech: "This party, this great party, is proud of our flags, yet if they are painted alongside graffiti, telling a Chinese takeaway owner to 'go home', that's not pride, that's racism.

"And, conference, you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin, that mixed-heritage families owe you an explanation, that people who have lived here for generations, raised their children here, built lives here - working in our schools, our hospitals, running businesses - our neighbours, if you say they should now be deported, then mark my words, we will fight you with everything we have because you are an enemy of national renewal."

Home Office minister Mike Tapp told Sky News earlier this month when responding to suggestions from Reform that the Prime Minister had incited violence against Nigel Farage: "It's offensive. It's ridiculous.

"There's no way on earth the Prime Minister, or myself, or any MP across the House - on all parties, by the way - that would want any harm to come to another Member of Parliament."

Asked about Reform suggesting Mr Farage's taxpayer-funded security has been cut, Mr Tapp said: "I believe Nigel Farage is saying that this is the Home Office that are making that decision.

"Now they know full well that the Home Office do not make that decision. It is an independent parliamentary security authority that look after MPs' safety, so it's down to them.

"There'll be reasons for it. Those discussions will have been had that I've not been privy to, so blaming the Home Office is, again, just trying to seed division with mistruths."