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Senior leaders of the Green Party and Reform UK have hit back at the prime minister after he attacked both parties at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski accused Sir Keir Starmer of deploying “cheap political smears”, while Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s head of policy, described him as a “laughable joke of a prime minister”.
In his keynote speech at the conference, Sir Keir said: “In the 1930s, leaders were too slow to level with the public about the fundamental shift in mindset that was required. So we must work harder today to build consent for the decisions we must take to keep us safe.
“Because if we don’t, the peddlers of easy answers are ready on the extremes of left and right, and they will offer their solutions instead.”
He went on: “It’s striking that the different ends of the spectrum share so much. Soft on Russia. Weak on NATO. If not outright opposed. And determined to sacrifice the relationship we need on the altar of their ideology.
“The future they offer is one of division and then capitulation. The lamps would go out across Europe once again. But we will not let that happen.”
‘PM should focus on the issues’
In response, Mr Polanski told Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips show: “I think people are pretty bored of Keir Starmer making cheap political smears at other parties.
“People’s wages are stuck in 2008. We know rents are going up, bills are going up. There’s real problems both in this country and internationally, and the Green Party are offering solutions to that.
“And what I think Keir Starmer should be doing is actually focusing on the issues people face every single day, rather than making cheap attacks in terms of the lights going out.”
Specifically on the national security point, the Green Party leader said he takes it “really seriously”, and accused the government of risking national security by bringing Peter Mandelson back as US ambassador, as well as not…
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