Was this one of the great Labour conference speeches?

So where does Sir Keir Starmer's ferocious attack on Nigel Farage rank among the great party conference speeches by Labour leaders? "And you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - a Labour council - hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers." Sir Keir is not the first Labour leader to face the possible threat of a leadership challenge, of course. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementAnother good party conference quip came from Tony Blair in a dig at his rival Brown in his 2006 conference swansong, in a joke about his wife Cherie. Sir Keir spoke in Liverpool this year about a "fork in the road".