Boris Johnson is proving that irony is not dead, after all

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Did Johnson not take the opportunity to read the advice on the government website or even the back of his polling card? (Getty)

For once, we wake up this morning to good news!

It is hugely gratifying to hear that the Tories have been thrashed in the local elections.

I was further cheered by seeing two mayoral candidates, Ben Houchen and Sadiq Khan, taking their very nice dogs to the polling booths, presumably to show the public they are decent humans.