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Nigel Farage is “today’s incarnation of the politics of Enoch Powell”, Business Secretary Peter Kyle has said.

The senior Cabinet minister hit out at the leader of Reform UK while speaking at the Co-operative Party conference.

Mr Kyle insisted the Government’s goal of boosting economic growth was needed to “build an economy and a politics that people can trust to deliver for themselves, their families and their communities”, ahead of making the remark.

He then told the conference: “The truth is that without securing higher, sustained economic growth, reconnecting peop

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