If May can get this through, she and Barwell will have played a blinder. At least in political terms. IMO not a blinder for the future of the country but to some extent that isn't their fault, they played the hand dealt to them by years of political infighting.

No, the buck stops with the PM.

The PM could have pursued her softer conservative policies which were well supported.

She chose to jettison them for brexit, and only brexit.

Her reason for life is to get brexit over the line, that is not the mark of a sensible PM, to live or die for one policy.

We have only to see the mess in just about everything the tories have started in the last few years to see the misguided focus on brexit.

'We trust the science' - Margaret Thatcher.

And here is what the science makes of the brexiteer voter.

Their results suggested that leavers tended to be less numerate, more impulsive and more prone to accepting unsupported claims of authoritarian figures.

Brexit is a totally manufactured crisis where none existed, by the conservative party to deflect blame for all their disasters upon a convenient 'enemy'.

It looks very like another 10 years of aircraft landing on Brussels tarmac each Friday with the PM 'batting for Britain' to no effect whatsoever.

Hopefully the EU is getting it and moving on, it looks like it.

I agree with the first part of your quote but not the second.

The biggest mistake that they made was to appoint a remainer as PM who's job it was to oversee negotiations for something she didn't believe in.

I'm sure that if we had the UK's version of Donald Trump in the hot seat the negotiations would have gone much better although he would probably have messed up almost everything else

I believe the ERG are waiting on the opinion of a small group of solictors headed by Bill Cash; it should be interesting to see if their opinion matches Geoffrey Cox's.