THE Euro-referendum campaign seemed all about the Tory Party tearing itself apart.

The actual result was actually case of the Labour vote falling apart.

Somehow despite most of Labour’s high-commend being in favour of ‘Remain’, they could not make the case to their supporters.

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It was clear that in the heartlands in the North of England, not least East Lancashire which voted 61 per cent for ‘Brexit’, the somewhat lukewarm endorsements of the EU by Jeremy Corbyn and his lieutenants did not resonate.

Immigration was the big issue and the economic warnings of David Cameron and George Osborne fell on deaf ears.

In Burnley UKIP’s Tom Commis reckoned that almost 80 per cent of those in Labour stronghold Bank Hall voted to quit the EU.

If the remain vote did not come out, the working class, Labour voting ‘Leavers’ did in their droves.

If Labour under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and Ed Miliband had lost touch with their natural supporters, Mr Corbyn’s new ’Red Dawn’ does not seem to a reconnected the party high command with its traditional foot soldiers.

The Liberal Democrats, the most pro-EU part in the mainstream, can take no comfort from this result.

The Scottish Nationalists are eying up a second independence referendum and UKIP is looking to do to Labour in England what the SNP did North of the Border in the 205 General Election.

David Cameron and George Osborne face a huge problem, having called a referendum they expected to win and lost badly.

Their survival as Prime Minister and Chancellor is this morning under threat as ‘Leave’ campaign superstar and his less charismatic sidekick Michael Gove eye their jobs.

But if Labour and Tories have a problem what happens to thousands of Labour voters who opted for leave yesterday.

At the moment that split Tory Party and shell-shocked Labour both seems totally out of touch with their desires and needs.

Blackburn MP and Remain supporter Kate Hollern said all parties had to sit up and listen a get something out of the now inevitable departure from the EU for the people of her constituency and East Lancashire as whole.

The question is who can speak for them now and get that good deal?