Clacton itself is in many ways ... and attractions of some historical significance – at the Gaiety Amusement Arcade, above which, with no discernible sense of irony, Reform had installed ...

As Clacton’s newly-elected MP walks through ... a former Chinese restaurant above an amusement arcade, which has a disused bar at one end of the room and an enormous Union flag at the other.

The leader of Reform UK is an extraordinarily protean politician and more pragmatic than is generally understood.