UKIP leader Nigel Farage shamelessly exploited Rotherham’s child rape scandal yesterday to launch an opportunist attack on Labour.
Mr Farage used his party conference speech to claim that Labour’s “political correctness” had caused more than 1,400 children to be abused.
He said MPs and councillors refused to act because they were “scared of causing a division within the very multicultural society that they had created.”
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP


