It only took a few hours for Corbyn’s threat of blocking Article 50 to unravel.
The balance of the argument is against one as matters stand. But May will have no alternative but to go to the country if Parliament frustrates Brexit or her negotiation.
Why are they incapable of welcoming such good news?
I wanted a properly socialist party. Then I got one.
If the former Prime Minister thinks it so important that voters have space to reflect and reconsider, why did he not fight for a less punishing exit mechanism in 2007?
It is part of the topsy-turvy nature of modern politics that the Liberal Democrats, left for dead little more than 18 months ago, find themselves almost the favourites.
The former Director of Public Prosecutions did not serve under either Blair or Brown, and is hard to place in the strife which rends the Labour Party.
If Theresa May’s Conservatives are easing their instinctive opposition, the Opposition must abandon its starry-eyed enthusiasm for the vast and the impersonal.
“I sometimes wonder whether there’s something about the liberal left…who mistake the fact that there are some things you simply do not do.”
The barbarians aren’t at the gates anymore, they’re in charge of the official Opposition.
All Labour has to do, if it wants to debate the Single Market in the Commons, is to hold opposition day debates on the subject.
His appointments will further deepen concern among the Parliamentary Labour Party that he isn’t that interested in winning.
Either we widen the membership of political parties and change the way they are funded, or the next stop will be a UK-style Donald Trump.
Plus: I now love Liverpool. Getting ready for Birmingham. Come and hear me interview David Davis there. And: My most shameful secret revealed.
As the Commons prepares to debates the effects of Brexit on these rights, here’s the story of how the Party has supplied them from Peel through to Cameron.