How Donald Trump’s rhetoric seeped into the Reform conference

The day before he strode on the stage to deliver a speech on the first day of Reform’s party conference, Nigel Farage posted a picture on his X. He’s standing in a blue suit behind the Resolute Desk in the White House, beside the seated Donald Trump. There’s no shortage of pictures like this around the place, with the Reform leader and the US President posing together. If anything, the latest was a little more formal than the previous grin-and-thumbs-up versions. But across the two days of conference at Birmingham’s NEC, it became clear that this snap was not all...