Only around one Briton in five wants Donald Trump to win the presidential election, according to surveys. Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Greens are holding their breath for Kamala Harris. The Tories are divided. Boris Johnson is boosting Trump but Michael Gove says he would vote for Harris. The leadership candidate Robert Jenrick has been busy qualifying his backing for Trump while other Conservatives, including the former Lord Chancellor Sir Robert Buckland, have been over in the US supporting the Democrats.

For us in the UK Trump is the story. But from what I have read and seen, there seems to be a prevailing expectation that he will be re-elected. US presidential elections have become the biggest single event on UK betting markets in recent years and the punters are backing the Republican nominee in increasing numbers. They are confidently disregarding multiple opinion poll analyses which insist that the race for the White House is “too close to call” and “neck and neck”.

There is a rising sense of delighted gloom among many in this country that it is really going to happen – the convicted felon and election denier is about to resume his place as leader of the free world. Apologists are already falling over themselves explaining that he was not that bad the last time he was in the Oval Office.

But it is not over yet. The news British audiences are getting is not giving a complete picture of the race in the US.

Harris is not hiding or ineffective as a candidate. Trump is behaving like the one with problems.

Trump is the one trying to avoid scrutiny in the closing days of this campaign. He has been cancelling media........

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