Nigel Farage is today’s Enoch Powell and his appeal down to slow economy, says minister

Peter Kyle said: economic growth was needed to ‘build an economy and a politics that people can trust to deliver for themselves, their families and their communities’. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Nigel Farage is “today’s incarnation of the politics of Enoch Powell”, the business secretary, Peter Kyle, said at the Co-operative party conference.

Kyle described Reform UK as “far right”, while stressing that boosting economic growth was needed to “build an economy and a politics that people can trust to deliver for themselves, their families and their communities”.