Keir wins the applause in the TV debate while the audience openly laughs at Tetchy Rish!

Rish!, under pressure, got snippy, continually talking over Starmer. It was a terrible look

It was another night of broken sleep. Fever dreams of Nigel Farage tormented him. That wide crocodile smile. Siren promises to the disaffected. The narcissistic orange glow.

Worse, Rishi Sunak had even woken to the man himself being interviewed by Mishal Husain on Radio 4. Would no one rid him of this turbulent fraud? Now Nige sounded irritable. Angry that someone was daring to ask him about policy details: not just blowing smoke up his arse.