TODAY’S Argus highlights the strength of support for Labour in Brighton and Hove, despite the fact that elsewhere the Tories are still the most popular party with the most MPs.

It was only two years ago we were reporting how we had become an island of red and green in a sea of blue after the last General Election. Peter Kyle and Caroline Lucas were lonely non Tories amid a swathe of Conservative victories in the South East.

This time that sea of blue has more little islands. Not many, but enough to almost topple the Prime Minister – if she had listened to some calls for her to resign.

What may well have taken place here, and cost the Tories many of their seats, was a failure to learn anything from Brexit.

The outlandish Nigel Farage has many faults, but his genius was to be pictured, time and time again, outside or inside a pub holding a pint. The things he said shocked the political elite but chimed with many of us. He spoke in words that many understood.

When David Cameron’s decision to hold a referendum on Europe backfired on him the electorate had held two fingers up to the inaccessible and lofty politicians who live lives so far removed from their own.

During this election campaign Theresa May failed to make herself a woman of the people.

When she spoke to politicians her scripted, almost robotic answers were often read out with little relevance to questions she had been asked.

Labour is no longer the party of the working man either. If it was, maybe it would have romped home on Thursday night. Jeremy Corbyn is a star of the student and civil servant population and has policies many of us like. And if he had made more of the electorate relate to him as a person then he would be in Number 10 this morning. He remains aloof and therefore unable to govern.

As a country we’ve tied ourselves up in knots ahead of the important Brexit process. Now we need to pull ourselves together quickly.