Pollsters are renowned for getting it wrong over and over again, not least in the latest US election. Though JL Partners founder James Johnson has outdone outdone himself with his latest blunder, writing in Conservative Home today that the US result means “We are not set for the first Black President of the United States”. Eh?

Obama might be a bit miffed by that. No wonder Theresa May was a disaster with him as an adviser…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”