On a dramatic political night:

– Boris Johnson seized on the ‚rout‘ for the Tories to make his case to succeed Theresa May and pull the country out of the EU on October 31 come what may, while Chancellor Philip Hammond warned that any attempt to force a No Deal Brexit could collapse the Government;

– Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said it was a ‚painful result‘ and there was an ‚existential risk to our party unless we now come together and get Brexit done‘;

– Mr Farage‘s Brexit Party polled above 50 per cent of vote share in some areas and looked set for 31 per cent nationally;