It has been a terrible general election. The least we can do is learn from it | Hugh Muir

Tomorrow we'll see politicians engaged in joy and recriminations, but they should worry about the cynicism and disappointment around us

It started with dark comedy. The sight of Rishi Sunak, behind the podium at No 10, drenched by the rain - a drowned rat in a sharp suit, drowned out by a hostile loudspeaker, bellowing out the fact of his sudden-death election - belonged to vaudeville.

The race itself belonged to Hobbes: poor, nasty, brutish and short".

Hugh Muir is the Guardian's executive editor, Opinion

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