The country has spoken.

And it has spoken out loudly and clearly.

The landslide majority has secured the Conservatives in Westminster and Brexit will happen.

The Labour Party has crashed to its worst election performance since 1935 and must now retrench and work out what went wrong.

The Lib Dems’ hopes and expectations of change have come to nothing.

The defeated parties - and politicians in general - have a lot of work to do.

Over the past three years, Parliament has been paralysed by enduring arguments over Brexit.

Meanwhile life in Britain has become harder and harder.

Already decimated by austerity, everyone is expected to do more with less and money has to be stretched further and further to make ends meet.

The Conservatives on their election trail have promised to act to improve the NHS and to increase the number of police officers.

The party says it will ensure more houses are built, business is boosted and climate change arrested.

It says it will also restore funding for schools.

The other thing it needs to restore is trust.

The public’s trust in politicians has been sorely tested in recent years. Trust is like fragile glass and once broken, is hard to repair.

But repair it they must and also prove they are worthy of the faith which has been put in them.

With power comes responsibility. Time to step up to the plate.