If you want the 2017 election in a nutshell look at Canterbury. When the YouGov seat projection last weekend put the Kent town in the Labour fold it was taken as proof that the model was flawed. Canterbury had never, ever, in living or dying memory been anything but Tory. I recall writing parliamentary sketches about its upper-class and ditzy MP, Julian Brazier, back in the 1990s. He was there for life.

Last night the voters of Canterbury rejected Brazier. And the reason is the same reason that the much vaunted collapse of Labour never happened. Canterbury is a university town with nearly 20,000 students. Overwhelmingly pro-Remain and anti-Conservative, it looks as though they turned out and put Rosie Duffield in the Commons. Brazier’s vote