United

What an encouraging time it is for British sport. Wales lead the charge and the week of success has ended with Scotland. Thanks to football, athletics, formula one, cycling and tennis we have had something to unite our rather confused and divided United Kingdom.

It is extremely rare to see English fans supporting Wales in any team sport let alone football, however these European Championships have seen many firsts. After a gallant effort lead by Gareth Bale and his fellow Welshmen it became more about the team work ethic and unity of a country who were rewriting the history books than it was about the actual end result.

I feel a little frustrated for our athletics team returning home from their European Championships with sixteen medals five of which were golds, as any other week their achievements would have been rightly recognised instead they went under the radar. Our cyclists do at least have another two weeks of the Tour De France in which to shine. After a tremendous start for British riders, who between three of them have taken half of the stage wins (at the time of writing), the future is looking bright.

Lewis Hamilton and Andy Murray rounded the week off perfectly as they both delivered winning performances under immense home pressure. It does feel like there is something special happening in British sport right now, let us hope this is a positive omen for the upcoming Olympics now only weeks away.

Away from sport we are at last taking some steps forward towards a more stable future for our nation and it is women who are at the forefront of this motion. It has become evident this week that our next prime minister will be a woman for just the second time in our history. On paper this looks great for equality, realistically the bigger picture is relief as there is now light at the end of this long Brexit tunnel.