UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Labour members to keep faith as he defended a multicultural Britain during a speech to his party’s annual conference that sought to allay questions over his leadership.

Struggling to fight off soaring support for the hard-right party Reform UK, Starmer told the gathering in Liverpool, northwest England, that he would “fight with every breath I have” for the “tolerant, decent, respectful Britain I know”.

He stressed that the UK “stands at a fork in the road” between “renewal” offered by Labour, elected to power in July last year, or “grievance” offered by Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage, likening it to a “battle for the soul of the country”.

“He doesn’t like Britain, doesn’t believe in Britain, wants you to doubt it as much as he

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