Overview

• Starmer is scheduled to address the Progressive/Global Progressive Action summit in London on Friday alongside other attendees reported to include Australia’s Anthony Albanese and Mark Carney.
• He will condemn language casting the UK as facing a “coming, defining, violent struggle,” describing it as poisonous and intimidatory.
• The prime minister will urge progressives to reclaim national symbols and argue that every nation must control its borders without relying on labour that exploits foreign workers.
• He is set to blame an “industrialised infrastructure of grievance,” amplified by social media, for turning real concerns into nationwide mobilisation.
• The speech follows the London “Unite the Kingdom” march reportedly exceeding 100,000 attendees, where Elon Musk delivered confrontational remarks, with media also reporting 26 police officers injured after a summer of protests near asylum hotels and St George flag drives.