Four months before the last election I conducted a survey which found Ukip voters to be the most pessimistic in Britain. Three quarters of them said they thought the country was heading in the wrong direction. My latest research reveals a stunning turnaround: 86 per cent of them now say we are on the right track, making them the most optimistic of all.

It does not take much to figure out what is behind this transformation. And the ’Kippers are not alone, even if most do not share their degree of exuberance: since the referendum, a majority of British people say the country is on the right path, and expect the economy to do well over the next year.

But a majority does not mean a consensus. Seven in ten of those who voted to remain in the EU say the country is heading the wrong way, and though more than four fifths of leavers expect the British economy to do well over the next year, just three in ten remainers agree. While leavers chuckle that they are still waiting for the world to end, many remainers fear that the real impact of Brexit has yet to be felt.

One response to this is that the remainers will just have to get over it. And plenty of them feel the same way – they may not like it, but they know they are going to have to get used to the idea of Brexit. In my focus groups, few of those who had wanted to stay in the EU now thought it desirable, let alone realistic, to try to reverse the outcome.