Could this be the picture which defines the next period of British politics? There they were, like three brothers in arms, in front of a remarkable portrait of their hero of myth. Front and centre was the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, arms resolutely folded, a fixed expression of haughty defiance, and wearing a brown leather flying jacket with white fur collar (available online for £171), looking, according to The Washington Post, “like a caricature of mid-century rogue masculinity”. A tough guy. A maverick. The main man.
He was flanked by his two supplicants. To his left was the leader of Britain’s Reform UK party, Nigel Farage, and to his right was Reform’s treasurer, the upmarket property developer and former Conservative donor, Nick Candy. They were more soberly dressed in business suits, although Farage, in an homage to Donald Trump (in whose Florida home the meeting took place), wears a white shirt and red tie.
And behind them, on the oak-panelled wall, like the........