With the weather improving, small boat arrivals look set to increase in the coming weeks. So what better time for Zia Yusuf, Reform’s Home Affairs spokesman, to take a trip to the States to learn how the Trump administration has stopped illegal migration there? Yusuf is in Washington this week for meetings with congressmen, Senators and officials on behalf of Nigel Farage. So much for the relationship between the MAGA movement and Reform cooling eh?

Yusuf has been among the most ardent enthusiasts in Farage’s party for a plan to mirror the Trump administration’s push for mass deportations. So he must therefore be delighted to be meeting members of MAGA – the Make America Great Again movement – as part of his bid to learn from Tom Homan, Trump’s ‘Border Czar’. Yusuf is set to deliver a speech at the Heritage Foundation on Thursday, amid much talk of Reform learning from the model that has deported some 500,000 people in Trump’s first year in office. Someone get the popcorn in…

After Reform’s DOGE initiative and digital assets push, it looks like the party is keen to draw from more Trump-inspired initiatives in the coming months. As Churchill once quoted, ‘Westward, look, the land is bright…’