The electorate is going to the polls today in a state of blissful ignorance over the catastrophe that is about to hit the country. That is because Theresa May has run a dishonest but successful campaign. She called an election to give herself a mandate for her version of Brexit. She has contrived to get through it while avoiding the substance of the subject entirely. Labour hasn’t challenged her because it too wants to avoid the topic. This has been the Brexit election where Brexit was scarcely discussed.

She has told the electorate nothing new about how she intends to do it, about how Britons will be poorer and more highly taxed if she keeps to her plan to leave both the single market and