EU leaders should recognise that May is serious in trying to reach a negotiated deal that has a chance of passing Parliament.
The Prime Minister looked like a straight actor who is appearing in a Christmas pantomime, in order to become the butt of everyone else’s jokes.
He asked May to “tell us at least one action that is now taking place that wasn’t taking place last month”. The Prime Minister reported some letters had been sent.
The Prime Minister replies that “the question Members of this House must ask themselves is whether they wish to deliver Brexit” or not.
The Prime Minister challenges her critics in the Commons, while telling them “I have listened.”
I set out the various permutations – and translate what the amendments to the Government’s motion mean.
“I think she could still turn it round. But we need a change of approach: she needs to go back with, if you like, a ‘best final offer’ to the EU.”
Tom Swarbrick was “alongside Theresa May during previous crises, including when she called the last general election.”
They can’t both be right – at least, not if an administration headed by the Prime Minister holds office. Could she please clear the matter up?
Meanwhile, there is little common ground in which to find a solution which would satisfy many Remainers and Leavers simultaneously.