Why did the Government craft its own defeat yesterday evening?

Perhaps we will find out today why Downing Street and the whips stuck with a motion that risked revolt by ERG members and second referendum backers alike.

The 17 Conservative MPs who rebelled to vote for the Spelman amendment

In the night’s only defeat for the Government, it passed by 318 votes to 310 – and with the largest rebellion from Conservative MPs.

The 12 Tory MPs who supported the Reeves amendment (a two-year Article 50 extension)

Despite their support, the amendment fell by 322 to 290 votes.

The 15 Conservative MPs who backed the Grieve amendment

The proposal was defeated by 321 to 301 votes.

The 17 Tory MPs who rebelled to support the Cooper amendment

Freeman joins the rebellion. But the amendment fell by 321 to 298.

The 17 Conservative MPs who voted for the Grieve’s amendment today

The Speaker defied all precedent to allow an amendment which forces the Prime Minister to present the Commons with a ‘Plan B’ much sooner than planned.

The 20 Conservative MPs who voted for Cooper’s anti-No Deal Finance Bill amendment

The Government is suggesting that it will make little difference in practical terms – but opposed it for symbolic and political reasons.

The 25 Conservatives who voted with Grieve to block a No Deal Brexit – or try to

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.

Yesterday in the Commons. More opponents than supporters of the Prime Minister’s deal on the Conservative backbenchers.

That said, there was more backing for her from her party than some of today’s headlines suggest.

Terror of No Deal is driving May to risk splitting her Party and fall back on Labour MPs instead

That’s the single fact that stands out from the “low tragedy, high farce” of resignations, splits, divisions, principles and ambitions consuming British and Brexit politics.

WATCH: Greening says the Government doesn’t properly value investment in people

“Because of that I don’t think we get the right decisions out of [the Treasury], and it now needs to fundamentally reform.”

Interview: Greening – Banning the People’s Vote from the Tory conference handbook is wrong. “You don’t win a debate by not allowing it to happen.”

The party must move on from Brexit – and focus on boosting social mobility.

The campaign for a second referendum isn’t really a campaign for a second referendum

It’s real aim is to create the circumstances in which Brexit can be halted – without the all-but-impossible holding of a pre-March 29 plebiscite.

James Frayne: A second referendum? The poll data suggests Greening’s idea would be a total disaster for the Conservatives

The British left are somewhat more open to the idea, but the Conservative Party’s members and voters would not wear the proposal

Justine Greening and Zac Goldsmith: Wrong scheme, wrong place – Heathrow’s third runway should never take off

Support for expansion is the prevailing wisdom, but it’s demonstrably wrong – even using the Department for Transport’s own figures.