Gerard Howlin: Labour and the remainers fiddled while Boris kept eye on the prize

Tomorrow’s election in Britain is only the end of the beginning. It won’t be the beginning of the end.

If, as polls predict, a Conservative majority is in place by Friday morning, and UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, ‘gets Brexit done’, it will be a starting point only. Leaving the EU by January 31 begins the far more challenging process of agreeing a new relationship.