Michael Heseltine is making a bid to become the fresh new face of Remoanerism. Earlier this month, ‘Hezza’ wowed the wets at Tory conference with a speech to the effect that Reform are ‘equivalents to the fascists in the 30s’ for the crime of wanting to reduce immigration. This week, having acquired a taste for the spotlight, he has spoken to the Times from his Northamptonshire stately home, setting out his stall in even greater and more tedious detail. Aged 92 and still a Tory peer, he hopes that his ‘final contribution’ to public life ‘may be to try to stop Nigel Farage’ – not out of any personal vanity, you understand, but ‘for the welfare of this country’.

Like many deluded liberals, Heseltine has a schizophrenic approach to multicultural Britain, and in particular what it means for

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