No, Keir Starmer Did Not Tell Labour To 'Take Up Arms Against The Enemy'

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68de892914000098a45c6bda.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Keir Starmer and Richard Tice" data-caption="Keir Starmer and Richard Tice" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="AP" />Keir Starmer and Richard Tice</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="news/richard-tice" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Richard Tice</a> claimed repeatedly today that <a href="news/keir-starmer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Keir Starmer </a>urged the <a href="news/labour-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Labour</a> Party to “take up arms and go against the enemy” earlier this week.</p><p>But this is demonstrably not true, as footage of the prime minister’s keynote speech to delegates at his party’s annual conference proves.</p><p>The Reform UK deputy leader told <a href="news/sky-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sky</a> News that the prime minister “essentially given license to the far-left, the likes of Antifa, to essentially come at us, come at Nigel Farage.”</p><p>Antifa is a MAGA term to describe anti-fascists.</p><p>Tice insisted: “He literally used the words, ‘take up arms and go against the enemy’. It’s the most extraordinary language.</p><p>“If we used that sort of language against our political opponents, we’d have had the police knocking on the door, it’s just outrageous and totally unbecoming of a prime minister of the United Kingdom.”</p><p>When the Sky presenter challenged the claim that Starmer had been “inciting violence” against Farage, Tice replied: “It’s literally what he said on his speech. He said take up arms on the enem