A functioning Government would whip for Malthouse Two – the plan backed by Steve Baker, Nicky Morgan, Iain Duncan Smith, Damian Green, Simon Hart and others.
The Speaker is unlikely to select backbench amendments designed to help her, so her least bad option is a Government one.
She looks increasingly like the captive of pro-Remain cross-party MPs working together against the pro-Leave referendum mandate.
Some favour a Second Referendum; others, EEA membership. But they have combined to deal the Prime Minister a second bloody blow in a single day.
That said, there was more backing for her from her party than some of today’s headlines suggest.
Johnson ordered them, at the request of the police. There was no indication from the Home Office that a licence would be refused.
The process is hard and risky, but it still seems unlikely that the Labour Party would really torpedo an agreement in the last resort.
The presumption of innocence should not be some empty piety. A nasty aspect of politics is that this principle is reversed when the headlines are bad enough.
Our candidates realise we have to start early. We have regular dates set well in advance to get out on the pavement.
Last-minute concessions appear to have saved the Government from defeat on the EU Withdrawal Bill
The Brexit negotiations and the lack of an obvious successor are likely to keep her in place at least until we leave the EU in March 2019.
In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.