So, Mr Grieve, tell us: Was it really worth it?

WAS it really worth it? Do Dominic Grieve and his fellow Tory troublemakers seriously think it was worth embarrassing their party, undermining the Prime Minister and giving succour to the EU’s negotiators – all for the sake of a dancing-on-a-pinhead technicality that barely anyone understands?

This paper shares readers’ huge relief that Theresa May has seen off the rebels, calling their bluff and leaving the Brexit Bill unscathed by any of the attempts by Remoaner Lords to wreck it.

So much for Mr Grieve’s hubristic claim that he could ‘collapse the Government’. In the event, it took no more than a meaningless form of words, dressed up as a concession, to send him scurrying back into his box.

So much, too, for the absurd, selfaggrandising Anna Soubry’s claim that loyal Tories’ threats to deselect her were a ‘threat to democracy’, making her even more determined to defeat the Government.

It may be too much to hope she and the handful of Tory Eurofanatics who rebelled will now keep their traps shut for a while.

But as for the rest of the would-be rebels, shamed into loyalty by their furious local parties, their patriotic duty henceforth is to rally behind their country’s negotiators.

As Mrs May heads for Brussels next week, the great thing is that she has the Brexit Bill in the bag. And with even the Remoaner CBI admitting that industry’s order books are brimfull, her bargaining position has seldom looked stronger.

With her little local difficulty now firmly behind her, let’s get on with it.