Alex Roberts

But neither does anyone want to see an administration paralyzed by indecision. As he assumes his place in the Downing Street pantheon, Sir Keir will need to regain his capacity to stand by his beliefs and to take calculated risks, if the country is ever to escape from its current sorrowful state.

The Conservative party's shift to the right since Brexit doesn't currently appear to have helped their long-term electoral prospects any more than their sleazy conduct or their economic incompetence.

While Sir Keir must be breathing a massive sigh of relief that the Far Right failed to secure its expected victory in France, he will surely be waking up in the middle of most nights in cold sweats at the thought of a Trump triumph in November.

While keeping themselves at safe distances, Farage, Tate, Yaxley-Lennon and their allies succeeded in mobilizing an army of hate-fueled extremists who descended upon the town to disrupt a peaceful vigil, terrorize a local mosque, and injure more than 50 police officers – and whose campaign of racist violent disorder was then swiftly spread by the neo-Nazis of social media as far afield as Hartlepool, Darlington, Aldershot, Sunderland, Stoke, Tamworth, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Weymouth, Rotherham, Plymouth, Blackpool, Bolton, Birmingham, Bristol, Belfast and London.

Elon Musk and his increasingly virulent platform X have managed to do a great deal to promote and apparently legitimize the views of far-right extremists and criminals.

Sir Keir didn't start the fire. But it's his job to put it out before the country can rebuild itself. And everyone expects that work of reconstruction to have begun, as he'd pledged, on day one.

Regardless of their ideological affiliations, most Tory members are surely hoping that their new leader will find a way to put an end to their party's fractious bouts of in-fighting, and that she or he will, like Ed Davey, discover rather more productive ways to rock the political boat – without capsizing it or trying to stop it.

As Trump wins the presidency for the second time, Democrats must do some introspection and recognise the party's failures instead of indulging in blame games.

Man United fans have taken to social media to discuss Rudd van Nistelrooy's confession he would like the manage the club.

What it should be concerned about, however, will be the impacts of President Trump's stated policies; impacts that may well stretch far beyond our own small national concerns.