The local election results must not, pollsters tell us, be taken as an indication of what will happen on June 8. In one sense they are right: they don’t include London, an increasingly counter-cultural city that will return various barking mad Labour MPs and, even more eccentrically, perhaps even Liberal Democrats. But the rest of the picture is clear.

Voters regard the Labour Party as so unfit to govern that even some of its tribal supporters can take no more. And with Ukip having little point now that it has achieved its historic aim of Brexit, and Mrs May’s superb impersonation of Mrs Thatcher in standing in Downing Street and wielding the full handbag over the bullies of Brussels, Ukip’s former vote – four million in 2015 – is heading for the Conservative Party.