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Mr Davies leads the Conservatives in the devolved parliament, but there have been repeated calls for that person also to be recognised as the party’s official leader in Wales.

Night after night, Georgians have filled the broad central avenue that runs past parliament, in such great numbers there is barely space to move, on the road or the pavement either side.

The original political crisis triggered by Macron’s June dissolution of parliament has been exposed as the chronic disaster it always was.

That could be a new majority government - unlikely given the splintering of the French parliament - or a technocratic government, to steer the country until new elections can be held next summer.

For the Irish media, the weekend's most irresistible story concerned an accused Dublin gangster known as Gerry "The Monk" Hutch, who came startlingly close to winning a seat in Dáil Éireann, the national parliament.