Was this one of the great Labour conference speeches?

So wherever does Sir Keir Starmer's ferocious onslaught connected Nigel Farage fertile among the large enactment league speeches by Labour leaders?

One erstwhile curate told Sky News Sir Keir's assertion that Mr Farage "hates Britain" was close up determination with Neil Kinnock's blistering battle connected the Militant Tendency astir precisely 40 years ago.

In Bournemouth, connected 1 October 1985, denouncing Derek Hatton's Liverpool Militants, Mr Kinnock famously declared: "I'll archer you what happens with intolerable promises.

"You commencement with far-fetched resolutions. They are past pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you spell done the years sticking to that, outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the existent needs.

"And you extremity up successful the grotesque chaos of a Labour assembly - a Labour assembly - hiring taxis to scuttle circular a metropolis handing retired redundancy notices to its ain workers."

Sir Keir is not the archetypal Labour person to look the imaginable menace of a enactment challenge, of course. Gordon Brown's admirers constituent to his 2008 code ridiculing would-be challenger David Miliband.

"I'm each successful favour of apprenticeships," helium quipped. "But this is nary clip for a novice." Brown's allies claimed helium was referring to the youthful Tory person David Cameron. But nary 1 was convinced.

Another bully enactment league quip came from Tony Blair successful a excavation astatine his rival Brown successful his 2006 league swansong, successful a gag astir his woman Cherie.

"At slightest I don't person to interest astir her moving disconnected with the bloke adjacent door," said the soon-to-depart three-times predetermination winner.

He wasn't the leader, but John Prescott's finest hr came successful a 1993 league code erstwhile helium rescued person John Smith from decision successful a important ballot connected bringing successful 1 member, 1 vote.

"This man, our leader, enactment his caput connected the block," helium said of Smith. "He has enactment his caput there, present it is clip to vote. Give america a small trust."

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It was vintage Prescott: garbled sentences, mangled syntax and unspeakable grammar. But it won the time and propelled him to the lawman enactment of the party.

Back successful 1960, Hugh Gaitskell famously declared: "There are immoderate of america who volition fight, and fight, and combat again, to prevention the enactment we love."

What galore of these memorable speeches - including Sir Keir's - person successful communal is that they were made erstwhile the enactment person was successful occupation and nether menace from enactment rivals.

For many, their warring code proved to beryllium a turning point. Sir Keir spoke successful Liverpool this twelvemonth astir a "fork successful the road". Will this code assistance him crook the corner?