After the vote that found the government in contempt of parliament earlier this week, an MP, carried away in the moment, shouted, “It’s the beginning of the end.”
His voice rang out from the hubbub of colleagues trying to understand what it meant that the government had been defeated in three consecutive votes in the Commons chamber.
The contempt motion, which two of the votes related to, ended up meaning very little, apart from the fact that the government had to publish the legal advice given to cabinet relating to the blasted “Irish backstop” – words that people in Westminster are sick to the back teeth of hearing.
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