Sir Keir Starmer gave a speech that had been widely trailed beforehand as the launch of his fightback against poll-topping right-wing-sovereigntist Nigel Farage, calling himself a true patriot and his opponents miserable, joyless, and poisonous.

Britain will be subject to a regime of mandatory identity documents by the end of this decade, the Prime Minister said on Friday morning, making the policy the key plank of his fightback against Brexit pioneer and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Farage, who now likes to remind the public that he has come first in over 100 consecutive national opinion polls, has been treated to a suite of positive headlines of late, including from the Daily Telegraph that he is poised to hand the Labour party its worst electoral defeat in a century at the ne

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