"Keir Starmer will make a major intervention this week, pledging a progressive fightback and promising the UK will reject the division and hate fuelled by the far right. The move comes ahead of Labour's conference amid increasing pressure on the prime minister from within his own party, where even senior loyalists have voiced fears that he has not mounted a passionate enough attack on Reform UK and rising racism in Britain."
"We have to have an answer to those questions. We need to be able to step up, a Downing Street source said, adding that this included a response to rising concerns about immigration. They said it would be a fatal flaw for social democrats to ignore those concerns. If the social democratic response to these big questions doesn't provide the answers they need, then people will look elsewhere, as obviously they already are, the source said."
Labour pledges a progressive fightback to reject far-right division and hate while aiming to calm party concerns ahead of the conference. Increasing pressure exists within the party over an insufficient moral rebuttal of Reform UK and rising racism. The leadership plans to build an international centre-left coalition to tackle right-wing populism and coordinate on Ukraine and Gaza. Immigration worries are being addressed to prevent voters turning to alternatives. Past reluctance to directly criticise controversial Reform proposals, including mass detention and deportation of migrants and scrapping the Human Rights Act, has caused unease.
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