Whisper it, but there’s a name on everyone’s lips at Labour conference. A man who clearly seems to be going places – if we look at the sheer number of times he’s been cited in Liverpool. Who is this whippersnapper? A young socialist exciting the grassroots? A rising cabinet star? Errr, not exactly: it’s Nigel Farage, aged 61 and a half.

The Reform leader may not be in Liverpool but it’s been impossible to escape his name in recent days, with Starmer setting the hares running by labelling Farage’s polices ‘racist’ and questioning his patriotism.

Which is why Mr S was so surprised to hear David Lammy explain yesterday that he was ‘not going to play the man. I’m playing the ball, as our leader did’ (before having to retract his statement that Farage ‘flirted with Hitler Youth when he was yo

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