Couldn't agree with you more. However, while the Tory opposition has been weakened substantially, we now have five Reform MPs, led by the modern day Lord Haw-Haw himself, Farage.
He will do nothing other than pick his ill-gotten gains up and bray from the side-lines over the slightest thing he doesn't like or that he perceives to be anti-British, which he'll no doubt view as a better use of his time than actually representing the many deluded constituents of Clacton-on-Sea.
I think we need to spend this first team realigning ourselves with Europe and then moving towards rejoining in the second, by which time Farage, Tice and the appetite amongst some members of the public for far-right populists (both here and abroad) will be nothing but a terrible, distant memory.