John Healey and Trevor Phillips on Sky News.A cabinet minister has been forced to deny that Keir Starmer is “panicking” about the rise of Reform UK.John Healey defended the prime minister’s decision to stage a hastily-arranged press conference specifically to attack Nigel Farage.The PM compared the Reform leader to Liz Truss over his spending plans, and also accused him of “poisoning our politics”.On Sky News this morning, presenter Trevor Phillips told Healey: “His speech had 1,100 words, 750 of them were about Nigel Farage. Why is he panicking?”The defence secretary replied: “He’s not panicking.”But Phillips went on: “Why does the prime mi