1) THE SPEECH

Nigel Farage has made his big speech to Reform’s party conference in Birmingham this evening. It was a bravura display which had his army of supporters in raptures.

‘I believe there will be an election next year’, Farage said, demanding a vote and branding Burnham ‘the Messiah without a mandate’. ‘We will fight to win,’ he said.

If he wins power, Farage pledged:

‘We will stop the boats within 100 days of a Reform government. End of.’