The funny thing is that Labour is wholly relaxed about Sarkozy winning – he and Gordon get on very well. But imagine the identity crisis into which a muscular, right-wing but emphatically modern French President might plunge the Cameroons. Sarko is perhaps the least likely person on Earth to “hug a hoodie”, and his “love France or leave it” is about far from cuddly Cameronism as it is possible to be. Watch the British Conservative Right looking enviously across the Channel if he wins – and keep a close eye on what they do next.
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