The real winners of this abortive ’emergency government’ could be the SNP

Once again, Remainers are bolstering the separatists even as they lecture Brexiteers on the importance of the Union.

Syed Kamall: Why the Prime Minister has grounds to hope the EU will grant her request for an extension

Even amongst those keen to use it as a lesson, there is not yet any willingness to take the blame for a no-deal departure.

Heaton-Harris resigns as No Deal Minister: “I simply cannot support any further extension to Article 50”

He praises the work done by civil servants to prepare for exit without a deal – and suggests the Prime Minister has not been fully informed of their progress.

Indicative Votes Round Two: 1) Revocation. Ten Conservatives for. 260 against.

Those who backed the motion included Guto Bebb, Antointte Sandbach and Ed Vaizey.

Indicative Votes. Bercow selects four motions. All back either a Softer Brexit, a second referendum – or No Brexit at all.

That’s variously for a customs union; for a custom arrangement plus the Single Market; for a second referendum, and for staying in the EU.

How Conservative MPs voted on the motion. There were 34 rebels.

PS: We make that 28 Spartans and six Remainers. The Prime Minister won only nine votes from across the floor, and lost the DUP.

WATCH: May’s final appeal to MPs to back her Withdrawal Agreement

“There are those that will say ‘the House has rejected every option, you’ll probably lose, so why bother?’. I bother because this is the last opportunity to vote for Brexit.”

WATCH: Wilson explains why the Democratic Unionists won’t vote for the deal

He describes the backstop as “a con trick which breaks up the UK”.

WATCH: Raab – Voting for Withdrawal Agreement “responsible thing for all sides to do”

The former Brexit Secretary argues that this is the responsible thing to do to avoid a no-deal exit and ensure the UK leaves the EU.

WATCH: Duncan Smith explains why he’s backing May’s deal

“If we say we stand up for 17.4 million people then we have to get those people what they asked for, to leave the EU. This now is the only way.”

WATCH: Cox urges MPs to seize a last chance to secure an imminent Brexit date

He argues that the House faces a “clear choice”, and rejecting the Withdrawal Agreement would jeopardise any extension of Article 50.

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?

MPs cast their ‘indicative vote’ against [roll of drums]…everything

The Letwin plan has not exactly delivered the promised clarity. Instead, the Commons has again said what it does not want.

WATCH: Beckett claims not having a second referendum is undemocratic

“Consider the consequences for trust in politics if this House forces an outcome on the people that they no longer desire.”

WATCH: Bercow will almost certainly block a third Meaningful Vote

The Speaker will block a Government ‘notwithstanding motion’, but announced this just after allowing Letwin’s.