The Speaker is unlikely to select backbench amendments designed to help her, so her least bad option is a Government one.
But the majority for such a solution is slender. And well over two in five respondents reject the deal entirely.
Why should the EU offer any more to an inconstant departing member, which can’t be relied on to deliver ratification of any agreement?
Other options being floated are designed to hold us in the EU’s orbit in the hope that we may be sucked back in.
It’s time for the Government to dust down Plan A Plus and A Better Deal – rather than its own scheme, which is going nowhere.
This morning, despite claims it would never happen, we seem to have a unicorn made flesh – just in time for Christmas.
There are four steps she must take, successfully and in short order, to be in with any chance of seeing it fly.
We need a new strategic partnership with Ireland. At the moment, that end seems endlessly remote.
The Party has not yet cultivated a formal relationship with the Irish community in Britain and this is an opportunity to reach out to what can be a powerful network.
Its freedom to prosper, to make and judge its own laws, for its people ‘to take back control’ over how or by whom they are governed – all these will be lost for ever.
When I tried to focus these concerns by calling for a vote to see if this deal did indeed have the agreement of Cabinet, opposition crumbled – and my colleagues fell silent.
Were it not for the backstop, May’s deal would get over the line – with support from an overwhelming majority of Conservatives, including us.
Only 13 of the more than 100 colleagues who are publicly opposed have said that their position is solely based on that aspect of the plan.