TO those in York Central hoping for change, I doubt you will see any from your re-elected MP.

After an election based entirely on Brexit, the national result was again a two-horse race with just a few percentage points in favour of leave – hardly a surprise.

The reckless element in this election however was the tactical voting of EU supporters prepared to take us so close to having a socialist government with trade unions as the real power behind the throne, just to lash out against Brexit.

Calling the election was a golden opportunity for the prime minister but her tactics for running it were terrible and she will now have to pay the price for such failure.

Despite this, I don’t think the result is a disaster for the nation as a whole.

In summary, we have a Conservative party that will now have to find a more worthy leader possessing talent and charisma, Ireland will become more involved with Westminster politics through the DUP and a well-deserved and long overdue beating has been handed to the SNP.

Hence the true winner in this contest is the union itself, far more important than the career of any here today, gone tomorrow politician.

So ironically it has fallen to Scotland to show the rest of Britain, and York in particular, how to accept a referendum result and move on in a new direction as a United Kingdom.

Dr Scott Marmion, Woodthorpe, York