Sir Keir Starmer deliberately got personal in his annual Labour Party conference speech , describing Nigel Farage as someone who doesn’t like or believe in modern Britain, as a cynic stoking fear in the public with his alarmist rhetoric on immigration.

Afterwards his top team of aides, jubilant his speech had landed so well, celebrated with a round of drinks in Liverpool’s Pullman Hotel, just yards away from where Starmer had been speaking.

One explained to The i Paper that the Prime Minister had taken a more direct hand in the drafting process, deciding to “call out” the Reform UK leader after a summer where he’d been allowed almost free rein to dominate the political argument.

Starmer has spent this week drawing a careful distinction between what he says is racist – graffiti

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