On Tuesday, Nigel Farage challenged Keir Starmer to a head-to-head debate. More specifically, the Reform leader wants to take on the Prime Minister in a northern working men’s club.
Obviously, that is not going to happen. The PM might have declared in his speech today that ‘the choice at the moment is between the choice of a Labour government… or Nigel Farage and Reform,’ but there is zero chance of him risking all to take on Farage directly in a setting of the Reform leader’s choosing.
There is, however, another man who should play Farage at his own game and challenge him to a debate: Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey.
Davey has been calling out Farage for some time now, trying to compare him to US President Donald Trump and so on, although there has been little response to the jibes.
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