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Historical racism has come back to UK the political arena, and it makes people feel very scared, the Prime Minister emphasized, alerting how divisive hard-right political tactics are “tearing our country apart”.

Tackling Discriminatory Language and Divisive Strategies

Speaking to GP and TV personality a well-known TV doctor, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK for enabling the revival to discriminatory and divisive political discourse that seemed a thing of the past years back”.

During the discussion, broadcast on a popular morning program this week, the PM provided his strongest signal suggesting the two-child benefit cap would be lifted during the upcoming fiscal announcement later this month.

Promise to Combat Child Poverty

When questioned if he planned to eliminate the limit, which charities have said is a major cause of poverty for children across Britain, the Prime Minister responded: “Let me be perfectly clear I am committed to drive child poverty down.”

He outlined steps ministers have already introduced including no-cost school lunches, morning meal programs, and childcare and emphasized: “We must go beyond these efforts, and I assure you and tell you I will personally focus to cutting child poverty.”

Pressed about if his comments meant he would lift the two-child limit, he stated “It would be misleading to claim we plan to reduce poverty among children if I wasn’t clear that we will be taking various actions to achieve this”.

Strong Signals from Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves, gave an equally strong hint earlier this week stating to a national radio station that finally, no child should suffer if their parents are struggling financially”.

Government officials are understood to be preparing to scrap the restriction fully, after initially considering ways to taper it for bigger households or wealthier families. The Resolution Foundation projects the expense would be about £3.5bn by 2029-30.

Ideological Split and Country’s Revival

In the interview, Starmer explained the ideological split in the UK now existed between Labour’s “patriotic national renewal” and “the toxic division of Reform” and others on the right who were “splitting the UK”.

“Parts of the discourse we’re hearing – racist rhetoric, polarizing language – which I believed we had dealt with decades ago is returning to politics and it makes people feel very scared,” he said.

“We must confront such discrimination, that division, and we have to proudly say that British identity involves caring for others, is about being fair, is to be tolerant and compassionate, and we’re proud of that.”

Echoing Warnings from the Health Secretary

Starmer mirrored language used by Wes Streeting, who cautioned earlier this month how a disturbing form of discrimination reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s was now worryingly commonplace once more with NHS staff were primary targets of this trend.

The health secretary noted incidents of verbal and physical abuse based on people’s skin colour had become so frequent making it “tolerated to hold racist views”.

“We’ve got to call time on racism across the UK and we need to place such harmful attitudes that has emerged nationally where it belongs and once again create an environment in this country that rejects racism to be racist,” Streeting said.

Critical Decision for the Public

Starmer used his speech at the Labour party conference this autumn to outline political battle lines with his political opponents, stating that voters faced a “defining choice”.

The prime minister said he was engaged in a “fight for the soul of our country”, noting that while the public expressed valid worries regarding unauthorized immigration, there was “a moral line” that Farage and others had crossed.

Starmer vowed to “fight” anyone claiming that non-white individuals were not truly British and that households residing in the UK for generations should be deported, stating those advocating these ideas were “against national unity”.

“Encouraging racial attacks and hostility, that goes beyond concern: it is illegal. This party – this great party – values national symbols, yet if they are painted with hateful messages, telling a Chinese takeaway owner to leave the country, that’s not pride; that is pure discrimination,” he told activists.