This should have been a simple vote to tell Theresa May to carry on trying to get changes to the Withdrawal Agreement demanded by hard Brexiteers in her party.
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And yet they were the ones who defeated her because this vote did not explicitly reverse an earlier vote by MPs against a No-Deal Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn demanded that she stop running down the clock and come back to Parliament with a new coherent plan.
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