Nigel Farage branded ‘Thatcher’s inheritor’ by Labour deputy chief Lucy Powell
The Labour deputy leader will tear into the Reform UK leader at the Fabian Society New Year Conference, and describe him as the love child of the former Tory PM and Enoch Powell
Nigel Farage was branded the love child of Margaret Thatcher and Enoch Powell(Image: PA)
Nigel Farage has been branded “Thatcher’s heir” and accused of backing “keeping children in poverty” by Lucy Powell.
The Labour deputy leader will tear into the Reform UK leader today (SAT) at the Fabian Society New Year Conference, where she will also describe him as the love child of the former Tory PM and Enoch Powell. Her attacks will come during a speech where Ms Powell will outline how Labour are fixing the country after years of Tory rule.
In a keynote address, she is expected to say: “Week after week, and defection after defection, it’s increasingly clear that Nigel Farage is not an insurgent, he’s the old establishment, and for the economic status quo. He’s part of a long line of right wingers who believe in a small state, trickle down economics, austerity and blaming immigrants for all the problems this country faces.
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“He is the love child of Thatcher and Enoch Powell. He’s the real heir to Thatcher. The long-line of Tories going to Reform shows. His actions and his associations show he’s in hoc to vested interests, for the status quo on the economy because it benefits those at the top, with assets and wealth. He’s anti-worker and for bad bosses, anti-renters and for rogue landlords, anti-pay rises for low paid younger workers, and anti the North against new rail infrastructure. The only thing he is for is scapegoating migrants, and keeping children in poverty.
“Farage’s diagnosis of the problems facing this country is fundamentally wrong. He isn’t promising change, but the same economic model which has battered ordinary people, whilst the wealthy like him have weathered the storms we’ve faced. He’s more at home in the wood-panelled private clubs of the City than the working men’s clubs of the North. He will be found out for being the charlatan he is.”
Ms Powell will also repeat her calls for Labour to tell its story, and echo the language of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
She will say: “Despite international headwinds, Labour must stay on its course of addressing the cost of living storm families face. We have a big argument to make and win. That for too long the country hasn’t worked for ordinary people, and we’re the ones fixing it.
“Where before, redistribution was our watchword, the challenges of today mean that won’t suffice. We’re fundamentally rewiring the country by taking on vested interests and making the economy work in the interests of the many not the few.”
