True, but Farage is both less popular (with Leave voters) and more unpopular (with everyone else) than Johnson. He has no ‘get Brexit done’ type message to unify those voters behind him. He also doesn’t have the good fortune of being up against a divisive leader like Jeremy Corbyn, who couldn’t persuade Lib Dems or even the right wing of his own party to get behind him.

There’s a reason Starmer brought Farage up at PMQs yesterday: even when Farage is not in the Conservatives, the association is damaging.