Good riddance is Europe's message to the Tories – but Labour shouldn't expect any favours

After a disastrous decade in which they blew up Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe, shrank trade and made life miserable for cross-Channel travellers, the Tories can't leave office soon enough for most continental Europeans. "Good riddance!" is the cry from Lisbon to Helsinki as London's erstwhile European partners hope that a new Labour government will start to rebuild relations with the neighbours that have suffered the most severe damage since the end of the second world war. Seen from Brussels, Paris, Berlin and Warsaw, the Conservative party will for ever bear the mark of Cain for having trashed…