Jeremy Corbyn tried to have it both ways. In an election that was essentially the second referendum on Brexit, he tried to split the difference and ignore the fact that the 2019 split in the UK is not left-right, but Leave and Remain. He was a bad call in 2015, was artificially kept alive by the Tories’ 2017 omnishambles, and now should rightly be for the drop tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson finally grasps the brass ring: a commanding win as PM. However, he has now caught the car, and the Conservatives are the Brexit party now. They own the whole shooting match, and the opposition parties are under no obligation to go along with it or provide any help. And they will be holding the bag when and if Leave voters start to recoil in 2020 at what Leave actually means. Couple that with what looks like a tremendous showing by the SNP, and it’s hard not to argue that David Cameron will go down in history as the man who lit the fuse on the demolition of the United Kingdom.
Long night ahead.