Like many Britons, I have been following the US presidential race with great interest and, in fact, probably more than most since I spend between 3 and 4 months of the year in the States.

I’m in the USA now and was fascinated by the reaction to Donald Trump’s latest success in the Republican Party’s presidential nomination contest and that of Hilary Clinton’s with the Democrats, earlier this week.

A significant number of Americans seem dismayed that their choice of president could very well boil down to one between Trump or Clinton and it seems to me that we have a similar situation in the UK.

In our country the choice is between a privileged former public schoolboy with little understanding of the wants and needs of ordinary people and a communist garden gnome stuck in a 1960s Soviet Union-inspired time warp!

If only there was something in between. How unfortunate that the choice is limited to that between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

If ever there was a time for a common sense, middle ground, political party now is surely that time.