at 7pm tonight they were still locked into hocks with at jacob rees—mogg, a rebel amongst themselves, half ago and brags that. so they are all good mates. there is i think, i mean, tomorrow is very likely that the amendment will be chosen by the speaker, but there is a wider aspect to all of this that this isn't going the way at all tory mps, ithink this isn't going the way at all tory mp5, i think will probably get their way and force the government to give mps and the house of commons essay on future measures. the sticking point of the moment is that the government are only offering a vote on retrospective measures, so they will bring in measures and then mps get a say about five days later, which, of course, for mp5, that's not enough. they want the ability to stop them or scrutinise and change them before they come in. just explain if you can as clearly and as brief as possible, why would they not pick this as a motion? because, essentially, he wants to depart from his predecessor, john bercow, who we nt his predecessor, john bercow, who went against the advice of his own commons