After five days of most MPs adding nothing to the meaningless debate, except attempts to re-run the 2016 referendum through scripted speeches, the PM inevitably lost her 'meaningful vote' last night by the heftily meaningful margin of 230 votes.
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Now, after the Grieve amendment that the Speaker broke all the rules to allow, the PM gets until Monday evening next week to come back to the House with her proposals of where we go next.
So she could have kept quiet and see if an opposition party would come up with a vote of no confidence.
But what she actually did was copy the tactic she used so successfully back in December when she won a vote of confidence in her party leadership, which came about because 48 or more of her backbenchers wrote to the chairman of the party's 1922 committee.
That vote was triggered on the 11th December and under Tory party rules the vote could have been held "as soon as possible in the circumstances prevailing". So Mrs May could have timetabled it for maybe a week later.
But what she did do was call it immediately, for the next evening.
This only gave her opponents 24 hours to get their act together.
And she did exactly the same thing last night.
As soon as the vote was announced she stood up and said that if Jeremy Corbyn tabled a motion of no confidence that evening, then the debate and vote would be timetabled for the next day.
She did not wait for Corbyn to marshal his forces and do it at a time of his own choosing, May took charge of the agenda.
This severely limits the opportunities for the opposition to get to a..
