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Farage being a shit stirrer, what a surprise.
But seriously, does anyone seriously think that Starmer is going to back a policy as vaguely defined as 'defund the police'? In the US I get it completely as they get military hardware sold on to them, have, comparatively, large budgets and clearly need root and branch reform.
In the UK I think it's different policing has already faced ten years of austerity and isn't buying used military equipment to aggressively police cities. That doesn't meant there isn't a need for massive reform, especially with regards to institutionalised racism, but that's not what Starmer was asked.