Positions on both sides of the Commons are hardening, despite (or because of) the crusade for consensus

Not only are Leavers and Remainers drifting further apart, but the various Remain factions are now engaged in a furious blame game.

The worst Prime Minister in our history

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.

It’s Groundhog Letwin. MPs cast their indicative votes against [roll of drums]…everything. Again.

The supporters of the softer Brexit and pro-Remain options have helped to do each other in. And Boles has walked out on the Conservative Party (it seems).

Naked flesh does not stop the Brexit debate

The protesters were at length evicted from the Public Gallery, but no one really seemed to be in charge.

Our survey. How Party members would cast indicative votes. They are overwhelmingly for No Deal.

The only options they have backed in this month’s survey are forms of No Deal – or to a lesser extent May’s Deal.

Grieve’s candidacy. Whose Party is it, anyway?

A party needs members. And if its leaders treat them as serfs rather than as owners, they will leave. We wish it luck in holding marginal seats without any.

Next Tory Leader. It’s Johnson first, Raab second and Gove third in our first survey since May’s pledge to quit.

Next time round, we will try run-offs between some of the main candidates, which are a bit ovedue.

Three cheers for the Commons for the way it is conducting the necessary argument on Europe

Progressive commentators and saloon-bar orators are wrong to condemn MPs for finding the national issue hard to settle.

The Withdrawal Agreement motion. Ayes 286. Noes 344. The Government loses by 58.

First time round, it lost by 230. Second time, by 149. The text of today’s motion was different, but will the political impact be the same?

Our survey. Three in five party members back May’s deal. It has a majority among them for the first time.

Our take is that there is very little enthusiasm for the deal among Party members: merely a growing belief that it is the lesser of two evils.

Seven Cabinet Ministers. Half the Whips Office. Eleven Ministers. All these failed to back the Government in yesterday’s extension vote.

Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?

Oliver says: “Please, Sir – I want some more!”

So you think his Indicative Votes wheeze has run into a dead end? Never fear. He has a cunning plan…

Bercow’s bias. How could May’s deal be put to a vote?

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.)

They’re off! (Well, perhaps.) Twelve questions for leadership candidates.

Such as: do you see Brexit as a help or a hindrance – and what’s your vision for our post-Leave country?

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: How the news of the Prime Minister’s departure reached the waiting press

Where Thatcher’s leadership once hung in the balance, May promised to go.