Well this was something that I had never seen before in Lighthouse so I had no idea how to proceed to debug it. The effect was that my mobile Performance metric was 60%, compared to my desktop Performance score of 100%. I saw in the Insights section of Lighthouse that there was something called a Forced Reflow going on.
This sounded a bit like a Cumulative Layout Shift which I have come across before and successfully debugged but what people were saying online about a Forced Reflow just wasn't making much sense to me so I went old school and copied the page to a new page called test-page and started to remove stuff, checking each time the effect on the mobile score in Lighthouse.

