IT is incredible to state that the resignation of a Prime Minister a year after winning a General Election and the historic meltdown of the Labour Party are not the biggest concerns for us today.

They are the aftermath of last Thursday’s vote and for sheer drama nothing can match the House of Cards collapse of Labour at Westminster. We live in febrile times indeed.

But both the Conservatives and Labour will survive these earthquakes.

What is less clear is what future our politicians are creating for us.

For as the markets still face turmoil and our country remains fractious and divided there still appears to be no plan for how we are going to remove ourselves from the EU.

We are rudderless at a time we can least afford it. And for Leave’s big players there appears to be no plan, no outline about what the shape of nation might be.

Already the rowing back has been quite astonishing. No £350 million for the NHS, no end to EU immigration. Boris Johnson has spent the last few days sounding like a Europhile on an overdose of caffeine, words of adoration for the continent spilling from his lips for the first time.

This would be high farce if it were not so vitally important.

When we need leadership from our politicians we get bluster.

So, given that we have no choice to move on, it is welcome that big companies like American Express, such an important player in Sussex, seeks to calm fears with its commitment to Brighton.

This sort of level-headedness will be much needed in the days and months ahead.