SIR KEIR STARMER must employ emergency measures to prevent the rise of the far right, a People’s Assembly Against Cuts rally heard today.

Speaking at the demonstration outside the party conference site in Liverpool, RMT president Alex Gordon said this summer’s racist riots are a “reminder that the incoming Labour government has inherited a divided society reeling from 14 years of Tory austerity.”

Labour’s economic strategy “bears an uncanny resemblance to that of its defeated and demoralised Tory predecessors” and “this is a time for emergency measures not of more of the same,” he said.