General Election 10 generally went the predicted way, albeit for a few surprises such as Labour not being decimated even after a major scandal / poor term, and New Britain’s electoral failure. As predicted though, liberal parties heavily gained. One of these heavy gains was in my constituency of Cambridgeshire.

Eelsmaj, the incumbent Cambridgeshire MP proudly boasted how his majority in votes was 11x that of my majority back in GE8 (his majority was 44k). Furthermore, during the Single Market referendum, Leave won by roughly 87000 votes. So going into the election, Cambridgeshire was a Tory and Leave constituency. Not exactly Liberal Democrat territory, who had made no secret of their opinions on Brexit.

However, the election result for Cambridgeshire shows a very different future. With a majority of 76,000 (more than twice of all the votes for the Conservatives and Labour), I had won the election.

This was not a close, tight race. I had won the election by a super majority, in a Leave constituency. This is a big deal.

So what does this show? It shows that people are waking up to the reality that a future outside the EU, with a poorly negotiated deal, is a future that they don’t want. This shows that I, and my other Liberal Democrat MP’s have a mandate to continue the fight for a final referendum on the deal. I am not ignoring the will of the people, but obeying the will of Cambridgeshire.

We are currently in the stages of appealing the Electoral Commission’s decision to block the final referendum to the Supreme Court, and I will keep on fighting for a final referendum both through the legal system with our challenge, and through grassroots campaigning.