“Sorry about the view,” jokes Simon Dudley as he strolls into Reform UK’s ‘Westminster’ meeting room, so named for its position looking over the eponymous palaces. From the twenty-somethingth floor of Millbank Tower, the nation’s legislative chamber looks uncharacteristically small, practically begging to be conquered. If this is a rather on-the-nose metaphor for the party’s current position of strength, riding high in the polls with the government floundering, the symbolism doesn’t stop there.