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After weeks in which it gained ground on the Conservatives in opinion polls, the Reform Party finds itself on the back foot following Nigel Farage’s claim last week that the West had “provoked” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by expanding Nato membership to Russia’s borders, says Brian Wheeler on the