Reform UK leader Richard Tice turns sights on ‘woke’ Labour

Reform UK leader Richard Tice targeted Labour in a pitch for voters in the so-called Red Wall.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer hopes to win back seats in his party’s former northern heartlands, which were lost to the Tories in Boris Johnson’s 2019 landslide.

At a press conference in London, he said: “We are now actually polling the highest amongst Brexiteers across the whole of the UK.

“We’re above the Tories in the North, equal in the Midlands, so we’re making huge strides.”

But he accused Labour of betraying working-class voters in favour of a “woke” agenda.

He said: “That’s the reality of what they’re doing. They no longer care, they have no plans, they have no solutions.

“All they’re focused on, frankly, are the woke, managerial middle class who happen to be eco-zealots.”