Under-fire Starmer to urge patience as he attacks hard right | International

Starmer has only been in power for 14 months, but is already facing questions over his future as Labour struggles to fight off soaring support for the hard-right party Reform UK. From a stage in Liverpool, he will seek to convince lawmakers that he is the right leader to take on the anti-immigrant upstarts, led by anti-European Union firebrand Nigel Farage. According to excerpts released ahead of his speech, Starmer was to say that Britain "stands at a fork in the road" between "renewal" offered by Labour or "grievance" offered by Reform. "It is a test. A fight for the soul of our country, every bit as big as rebuilding Britain after the war, and we must all rise to...