Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances. But to do it when the family are expressly saying, ‘Please don’t’, is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”
So it does. In the House of Commons, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer surely spoke for the vast majority of the British people when he told Nigel Farage, in cold and precise terms, exactly why the leader of Reform UK has been so recklessly misjudged in his response to the desperately sad murder of Henry Nowak.