If Theresa May survives today’s vote of confidence – which looks likely with DUP support – then the big question is what will she do next. The Prime Minister has three days to go before having to present her Plan B to the House of Commons.
Until last night’s vote, No 10’s plan was for May to go back to Berlin or Brussels to plead with Europe’s power brokers to give her more meat to take to the Commons for a second-bite. Her RAF plane is said to be on stand-by.
That now looks unlikely for two reasons: the scale of her defeat was so catastrophic that tinkering with the Irish back-stop is hardly going to shift opinion while the response of EU leaders last night suggests they have nothing more to offer.
