When I travelled to Washington DC last week, I was feeling pretty smug that, unlike my colleagues, I wouldn't have to pay much attention to the parties battling it out in the Makerfield by-election. So imagine my disappointment when, upon landing at Dulles Airport, I found I wasn't the only irritating Brit visiting America's capital - Reform UK's Home Affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf had beaten me to it by a few hours - and was giving a pretty baffling speech that night to bonkers right-wing think