I am now the most popular party leader in the country.

It’s a funny old thing the media, here’s one of today’s headlines. ‘Keir Starmer now as unpopular as Nigel Farage’. Goodness gracious me. How low can you sink? This must be absolutely awful. Big headlines from a YouGov poll published yesterday. But there’s another way of looking at it. Who is the most favourable of the party leaders? And oh, how very, very strange. We find that Nigel Farage is now more popular with the British public, with Keir Starmer, Ed Davey, Rishi Sunak and certainly more popular than any of the current Conservative leadership candidates who most of the country have never, ever even heard of. Now, of course, I’m delighted to be the most favoured, the most popular party leader in the country. But believe me, this is certainly not just about me. It’s about our five MPs. The work they’re doing. It’s about our growing membership. 90,000. We’re up over 80,000 from this time last year and it’s growing quickly. People paying their 25