The country is "coming together" behind Brexit, Theresa May said as she launched her ill-fated snap election, "but Westminster is not". Harmony has still yet to break out in SW1.

Labour and Liberal Democrat peers now threaten to use the PM's failure to win a majority as justification to sabotage Brexit. Still, the Prime Minister can console herself with the knowledge that the British people are moving in the right direction.

Last June's vote to leave the European Union showed the growing public appetite for Brexit. The event left the electorate more Eurosceptic than ever before, according to the latest British Social Attitudes survey by NatCen, as three in four (76 per cent) felt that Britain should either leave the EU, or stay in the bloc on much looser terms.