I wanted to wait until after the Queen’s Speech before thanking all those who voted UKIP in Thirsk and Malton at the General Election.

I also want to congratulate all the other candidates, not least Kevin Hollinrake, on a civilised and positive campaign which has done our constituency proud. During the election the mantra repeated by many voters was “Isn’t UKIP’s job done?”

Now that the Queen’s Speech is behind us the answer must be “Yes, at least for the next two years.”

The Fisheries Bill should allow our 200-mile North Sea Exclusive Economic Zone to be reclaimed, the Agriculture Bill should reassure our farmers, the Immigration Bill should help secure our borders and the Trade Bill should create export opportunities around the world. The CBI has announced that British exports have just hit a 22- year record, while order books are at their highest since 1988, so the magic of Brexit is working.

UKIP’s duty must now be to support the three gifted Brexiteers, David Davis, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson, in their historic task.

Once achieved, the political landscape will anyway be very different.

As well as the export boom in British manufactures, the General Election brought more good news.

The Union has been immeasurably strengthened with the tiresome SNP pushed back to its Highland base and the DUP making solid progress in Ulster. An independent, outward-looking Britain trading freely around the world is in sight.

And one last piece of good news on which everyone will agree is that we don’t need another General Election for five years. So despite everything the result contains much that is good both for Thirsk and Malton and for the whole country.

Toby Horton, chairman, UKIP Thirsk and Malton