Nigel Farage proved he hasn’t gone as soft as his opponents had hoped when he used his party’s Maga-lite, fever-dream-cum-night-terror of a conference in Birmingham, to offer an update on his surprising (and controversial) pledge to lift the two-child limit if elected to government.

The Reform UK leader has said that the Conservative welfare policy, so far retained by Labour – limiting universal credit and tax credit payments to a family’s first two kids (which has fast become the biggest driver of child poverty, costing a family £3,455 per year per child) – would only be lifted in support of “British families”.

Those, in other words, who he described evocatively in his main-stage speech – in a scene worthy of kitchen-sink realism master Alan Sillitoe – as rising at 5am to physic

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