The Readout

Julian Harris: US Election Is Labour's Happy Distraction

Keir Starmer at the Interpol general assembly in Glasgow

Photographer: Russell Cheyne/AFP

Big things are going to happen this week. Very big things — predominantly in the world’s largest economy, where extremely tight polling between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is keeping the market on its toes.

Tomorrow’s US election is so monumental that it threatens to cast a shadow of irrelevance over events in our corner of the world — even if, in normal times, this week would be considered a pretty feverish spell of activity for British public life.