The outcome of the general election has given the Conservatives a healthy majority with which, for better or worse and regardless of one’s personal politics, they can and will “Get Brexit Done”. It could be said that swathes of the electorate have given the Prime Minister a mandate direct from the sportswear giant Nike* – “Just do it”.
In this sense at least, the Prime Minister has freed himself and his party from the limitations of minority government and also, perhaps, of the need to accommodate Brexiter ‘ultras’ in his own party. There is perhaps some irony that the price of the Conservative and Unionist Party achieving this is a significant electoral shift away from unionism (with a small u) in both Scotland and Northern Ireland.