++Westminster wars++

REMAINERS are excited about an online petition to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, after more than 3.6 million signed it. Rather pales into insignificance compared with the 17.4 million who voted to Leave.

HAvINg lost the support of even many of her loyal MPs after her disastrous ‘I’m with the people’ speech, a humiliated Theresa May said her duty now was to ‘leave in a smooth and orderly manner’. Trouble is, that’s exactly what most Tory MPs want now: her smooth, orderly and swift exit. n

AFTER reports that Leavers demanded the Chancellor’s head in return for their support for the PM’s deal, Philip Hammond was pictured next to Mrs May in PMQs with his head bowed and eyes tightly closed — sleeping, or praying?