Where do we go from here? The voters have swerved to avoid a head-on collision with the Corbyn Nationalised Express. But it is unclear where the guy with his hands now firmly on the wheel will take us.

The many optimists in the City believe that with a big majority prime minister Boris Johnson can now show his true colours as a liberal, pro-business, free-market internationalist determined to minimise the short-term economic costs of Brexit.