Britain’s ruling Labor Party gathered for its annual meeting on Sunday, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer battling to convince nervous lawmakers that he can lead the “fight of our lives” against the insurgent hard-right.

“We’ve got the fight of our lives ahead of us, because we’ve got to take on Reform. We’ve got to beat them,” Starmer said on Sunday. He also called Reform’s plan to make migrants reapply for new visas with tougher rules “racist”, adding it would “tear our country apart”.

The prime minister, who is scheduled to address the conference in Liverpool, northern England, on Tuesday, intends to run for the next parliamentary elections in 2029, as a choice between the “national renewal” he advocates, and the “toxic division” advocated by the far-right Reform Party. (AFP)