Keir Starmer’s keynote speech in Liverpool was punchier and more powerful than the Prime Minister’s usual interventions. The Labour leader announced that his party will scrap Tony Blair’s target that 50 per cent of children should go to university, replacing it with the aim of seeing two-thirds of kids get a degree or gold-standard apprenticeship. The PM told his party: ‘I don’t think the way we currently measure success in education… I don’t think that’s right for our times.’

Starmer has riled Farage

Like many of his colleagues have throughout this conference, the Labour leader took aim at Nigel Farage and Reform. He questioned whether Farage is patriotic – ‘For me, patriotism is about love and pride, about serving an interest that is more than yourself, a common good’ – and asked deleg

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