What we can learn from the French election | Letters

Readers respond to the election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France and reflect on what British voters can glean from his victoryTo read your depressing editorial (8 May) and the surprisingly negative piece by your normally brilliant columnist Timothy Garton Ash (This is only a reprieve, 8 May), one would have thought Emmanuel Macron had actually lost the French presidential election instead of winning by a near-record margin. As for Timothy’s three points on “the triple espres