"It's true," McBride, the first out trans member of Congress, said. "Voters fundamentally ask two questions: Does this candidate like me? And what does this candidate think? If you can't answer the first question, they never get to the second." She paused before adding, "You can't build a diverse working class coalition if people don't feel like you like them. And that means not being assholes to our base either."
Keir Starmer has decried Reform UK's racist plans to revoke the rights of thousands of people to live in Britain, as a number of cabinet ministers escalated attacks on Nigel Farage on the first day of the Labour party conference. The prime minister said Farage's plans to revoke indefinite leave to remain for families who may have spent years working in Britain could tear this country apart.