This was the speech that liberals have been dreaming about all summer. For months, Nigel Farage’s Cheshire cat grin has been a fixture of British politics, as his bunch of merry men have run rings around the Labour government. In No. 10, Keir Starmer and his aides appear baffled and bemused, unable to stop the boats or fix this country’s ails. Reform’s polling has soared to record levels as the public mood hardens on migration, asylum and security. Much of the Westminster elite have been in despair, enraged by what they see as Starmer’s cowardly unwillingness to check the rise of Reform UK. Today it was a different knight who answered their prayers and delivered a full-frontal attack on Farage that will have the progressive pundits cheering.

Sir Ed Davey’s speech to the Liberal Democrat p

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