Double check and mate, sukka

The u turn by the Conservative Whips meant that the vote for referral did not happen. No one objected so was passed without division.

Quite how the Government went from a three-line whip to accepting Labour's motion without ammendment is an object lesson in piss-poor politics.

MPs supporting Johnson ran out at least two hours before the vote, so MP after MP stood up demanding Johnson resign.

Even worse, even Steve Baker, aka the "hard man of Brexit" ERG member and Conservative MP also called him to resign too. The gig being up. Johnson now finds himself in India with his Premiership collapsing around him, with support in Parliament evaporating, so needing to come back and try to save himself.

Even worse for Johnson, he and his Party has gone from an unassailable lead at the beginning of December to this in a matter of four months, the support for Patterson, whipping MPs then doing a u turn at the start of next day's business meaning that they couldn't be called on to do that again, what with the anger of their constituents and the people of the United Kingdom.

The only plus point for Johnson is that the inquiry will only begin once the Met's investigations have begun, and the Met have said they will not issue any more fines until after the local elections on May 5th, but once the Met is done, the inquiry can demand evidence and will require the Prime Minister to provide evidence of checks he said he carried out, and those who said all laws and guidance was followed.

Their single aim will be to find out if Johnson mislead Parliament. Or not.

There is a sanction in which Johnson could be suspended from Parliament, if that were to happen, would he try to cling onto power even then? It is possible as there is no requirement in the constitution of the PM being an MP, but it would be very difficult.

Johnso was made Leader and PM because he won elections. Was electable.

If Johnson can't win elections any more, he is no further use for the Party and they will dump him, just as they did Thatcher.

The end when it came was very slow, and then very quick.