The unrebuttable fact is that the Prime Minister is in breach of her word, and that the collapse of trust in the Party threatens to be terminal.
The EU has already opened the door to starting discussions about such alternative arrangements the minute that the Withdrawal Agreement is approved.
It’s a dramatic moment. But it may not mean very much – because the Government is likely hold votes on different options of its own accord anyway.
We refer, of course, to Letwin – the Prime Minister In All But Name. Not because he’s making a mess of things. But because, unlike others, he’s unaccountable.
Four plans are being mooted. (We propose a fifth: putting him a time machine and returning him to the Monday Club’s Immigration and Repatriation Committee.)
The Speaker will block a Government ‘notwithstanding motion’, but announced this just after allowing Letwin’s.
Hers or Letwins? That’s what the choice is narrowing down to. From the point of view of trust in politics, how MPs vote will now make little difference – if any.
Rees-Mogg details how the deal is “definitely not” worse than Remain. And: why the Letwin plan is constitutionally “absurd”.
Harmony reigned as he denied being a revolutionary.
She yesterday achieved the outcome most likely to prop her up – at least for the time being. But Cooper, Letwin and Bercow are waiting in the wings.
The Speaker offers a distillation of his signature style.
40 opposition MPs stand in their places in order for it to take place. The Speaker rules it must happen now.
Even worse is the politicisation of the Speaker’s Chair. The impartiality of Britain’s Speaker was, like the impartiality of its monarch, a given.
Like it or not, the choice has shifted away from ‘Deal or No Deal’ towards ‘Deal or No Brexit’. It’s better to fight against a bad deal outside the EU than to Remain.