The winner and losers of Brexit – who’s soared and who’s sunk in the crazy year since the EU referendum?
IT’S BEEN a mad year in politics, we can all agree on that.
But one year on from our historic vote to leave the European Union, the fates of the British political elite have been utterly turned upside down.
The Sun take a look at who’s up and who’s down in the Westminster bubble as Brexit Britain transforms politics.
DOWN: David Cameron
Mr Cameron was Prime Minister a year ago, hoping for a historic win in yet another crucial referendum on the country’s future. Now he's writing his memoirs in a posh shed, wondering where it all went wrong.
On the upside, he is earning an absolute bucket-load doing the after-dinner speeches circuit - and is still young enough to make another run doing something else if he wanted to.
UP: George Osborne
Despite being sacked brutally by Mrs May a few days after she became PM, Georgey’s now having the time of his life.
He spends his days watching Theresa May’s world crumble and splashing the remains all over the Evening Standard front pages.
On his days off, he appears on ITV’s election programmes gleefully grinning as the results come in that show his former colleague isn’t doing as well as she’d hoped.
DOWN: Nigel Farage
Now he has helped win Brexit, Nigel is basically an irrelevance. With the former Ukip leader’s party getting just 2 per cent of the vote in the election, we don’t even need to say how pointless he seems, shouting from the sidelines.
Only Americans seems to be interested in him these days.
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UP: Boris Johnson
Boris had a wobble over a terrible, failed leadership campaign that saw his best mate Michael Gove stab him in the back and run against him at the last moment, forcing him to dramatically pull out himself.
Even Theresa Maybot felt sorry for him - if she were capable of emotions that is.
But now he’s foreign secretary, sitting around the cabinet table making a lot of seemingly important trips... and he’s the bookies favourite to take over if Theresa’s toppled as leader. Having your cake and eating it too, Boris?
DOWN: Nick Clegg
Previously the deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg has had a total fall from grace in recent months. He’s so hated in Sheffield, he was kicked out of his Hallam seat by Labour a few weeks back.
But it’s not all bad - he has written a book since we quit the EU, and he has a column in the i newspaper now. Stay strong, Nick.
UP: Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn has clung on and pulled himself back from the cliff-edge. A year ago all his MPs hated him so much they almost all voted to no-confidence him, and called for him to go.
Fast forward 12 months and he’s swept the party to a relative victory, winning an extra 30 seats at the election, and millions more votes.
He’s the People’s Prime Minister now, the Corbynistas say. Ohh, Jeremy Corbyn…
DOWN: Tony Blair, all of his Blairite followers and the 172 MPs who voted for Jeremy Corbyn to resign
How does that humble pie taste, guys? You’re stuck with Jeremy until the end of time now.
UP: Brussels Bureaucrats
Those jokers in Brussels love a good constitutional crisis - and what could be better than the potential break up of the very union they spend their life serving? After years of wrangling with Britain, they’re finally free of us. Almost.
But with Guy Verhoftstadt’s mailbag filling up rapidly with tearful Remainers begging him to help save them from Brexit, there are some in Brussels who are keen to punish us for leaving, and causing the EU all this extra hassle.
And with Theresa’s reduced ‘mandate’ from the British public signed, sealed and delivered, EU chiefs are probably feeling a bit more smug than they were a few months ago.
DOWN: Theresa May
Oh, Theresa. Less than a year ago, you were Home Secretary, fighting ever so quietly for a Remain victory. You then saw David crumble to the ground, smashed all the competition in the leadership contest, and became PM by default after everyone else was ruled out or dropped out.
Now, things aren’t looking so rosy. You’ve lost your majority. Many of the ousted MPs hate you for calling an election you lost seats in. The DUP are becoming increasingly miffed with you as you struggle to secure a deal with them.
You’ve even lost one of your Philips (Hammond, that is) to the sweet calls of a soft Brexit.
And while you’re determined to provide “strong and stable” leadership through Brexit, many think time is ticking on your leadership..
UP: David Davis
A year ago Davis was an anti-EU backbencher that was almost considered a political has-been.
Now he’s in charge of ensuring his wildest dreams come true - securing Britain’s historic exit from the European Union.
DOWN: Nicola Sturgeon
If there’s one good thing that came out of the recent election, it’s that losing MPs in Scotland has dashed Nicola’s hopes of having another independence referendum.
She was even pictured dabbing at her eyes on election night as . Sorry, Nic.
DOWN: Ed Miliband
At least Ed’s still an MP. But in the last few months he’s been spotted doing the bingo numbers (and getting it wrong), mowing the lawn for constituents, and chatting about loos and flushes on Radio 2.
Career’s gone a bit down the toilet, eh, Ed?