There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting | Marina Hyde

The worst-timed foreign visit by a politician this week was LA mayor Karen Bass deciding to attend the inauguration of the president of Ghana .

The second worst might be Rachel Reeves’s decision to push ahead with her China bridge-building trip against a backdrop of market turmoil, soaring UK borrowing costs and the inevitability of rising food prices.

The chancellor has apparently told all her cabinet colleagues to “cease anti-growth measures” and also to come up with specific plans to boost economic activity.

Farage is starting to develop that Trumpian thing of having his own gravity system, where everything that happens even if it theoretically seems bad in the moment ends up playing well for him.

One poll this week put Reform level with Labour at the top of the polls at 25% each.

Another had them at 22% just 4 percentage points behind the Tories and Labour (tied at 26% ).