Plant id please

[Dilbertian]

What's this big baby that has just appeared in my garden?

My size 8 foot for scale.

It looks a bit like a foxglove

Although Flora Incognita reckons it's Green Alkanet,but I think it's too big to be that.

Are the leaves furry?
It's an absolute beast whatever it is!
Comfrey leaves can be pretty big...?

Last year MN said foxglove as well, but no foxglove grew.

Could be biennial?

Green Alkanet?

I think it's closest to comfrey. Bottom photo below as a comparison.

I think the formation of the plant and leaves is what clinches it. It's nice.

apple recognition suggests fox glove

Doesn’t flower until second year

I reality don't think it's foxglove.

Tbh it seems too big and has a sheen rather than furriness which doesn't seem right for any of the suggestions

Side shoot wrong for foxglove, so looking more like forget-me-not family (Green Alkanet, Comfrey). It seems to be shaping up to flower and the earliest flowering of that lot is Abraham Isaac Jacob (Trachystemon). But not sure. Leaves not right texture.

When I get home I'll check out the texture of the leaves.

The upper surface of the leaf is shiny, but also very slightly fuzzy. The underside is fuzzier. The fuzz is prickly, not soft. A flower stem has sprouted since I took the photo in the OP.

PlantNet app seems to think Green Alkanet too based on your last photos.

At the very top of the top flower spike, there is a blue flower. So not foxglove. Any of the forget-me-not family suggestions given remain on the table, with green alkanet possibly the most likely. Post another picture in a few days when more flowers are open?

It does seem like green alkanet (what an ugly name). The flowers will confirm it.

If it is, it's in the perfect location.

(what an ugly name) Try the botanical name - Pentaglottis sempervirens

Also known as Evergreen Bugloss (bew-gloss, not bug-loss).

Green Alkanet is a prolific self seeder. Don’t let it set seed or you’ll have them everywhere!