BRITAIN’S NEXT election may have something of a French feel to it. The Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer told its conference in Liverpool on September 30th, was locked in a “fight for the soul of the country”. In the summer, thugs had twisted the Union flag into a symbol of intimidation, he said. Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, a populist right-wing party, has promised to end “indefinite leave to remain” for immigrants with retroactive effect; Sir Keir termed it a racist scheme that would result in people’s neighbours being deported. It would take patriots of left and right who did not share Labour’s worldview to rally to the defence of their beautiful, tolerant, diverse country, he said. “In the end, we really are all in it together,” the Labour leader declared.