He might be standing beneath the White Cliffs of Dover in his Union Jack socks, deploring multi-culturalism, calling for a 'Minister for Deportation' and pledging to erase all forms of wokery from every branch of the public sector. Yet Nigel Farage is also presenting himself as the new Keir. Not Sir Keir Starmer, of course, but the man after whom the Prime Minister was named. It was Keir Hardie who took a hotch-potch of squabbling trade unionists and turned them in to a new organisation called the Labour Party.
