Oliver Letwin’s latest attempt to hijack Parliament to block Brexit ultimately flopped by a margin of 11 votes – the most comfortable margin of victory the Government’s had in a while. This was despite 10 Tory MPs voting to hand power over to Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer:

• Guto Bebb
• Ken Clarke
• Jonathan Djanogly
• Justine Greening
• Dominic Grieve
• Sam Gyimah
• Phillip Lee
• Oliver Letwin
• Antoinette Sandbach
• Caroline Spelman

Despite calls for them to have the whip removed, Guido can’t see it happening. Frankly they should just ask themselves why they’re even bothering to take part in a Tory leadership election when they’d rather have Jeremy Corbyn making crucial decisions about the future of the country…