No-one who was in the Commons yesterday was left in any doubt the end is nigh for Theresa May's premiership.
Four Tory MPs waged brutal attacks from the backbenches, but over prosecutions of Army veterans rather than Brexit.
The Prime Minister looked shaky, vulnerable and – and this is at least something of which Mrs May can rarely be accused – not across the detail.
Outside the chamber, Brexiteer Cabinet ministers were plotting their response to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill which, they believe, has gone way beyond what was agreed around the table on Tuesday.
By 7.35pm, that climaxed with Andrea Leadsom's resignation.
At 10.30am this morning she was due to outline forthcoming parliamentary business, including revealing the timeline for MPs debating the Bill – a Bill she admits she cannot support.
It's over. The Bill has no chance of clearing the Commons and may not even make it to a pointless vote that will simply inflict another humiliating, crushing, energy-sapping defeat.
Why bother? To just go through the motions to say at least the PM tried?
All power and authority has now drained from this Prime Minister, and we should expect her to set out her timetable for departure in hours rather than weeks.
Even she now accepts it's over.
She meets Tory powerbroker Sir Graham Brady tomorrow and hopefully we will finally have some clarity.
But like the struggling football team that sacks its manager because it can't think of anything else to tackle the malaise but must be seen to do something, the problems are far more fundamental.
While political opponents can delight in Tory Party travails, this turmoil is hugely damaging to us as a country and our standing on the world stage.
Mrs May's is just one job which looks doomed.
Some 182 miles north of Westminster, another 25,000 dedicated workers are under threat of losing theirs after British Steel plunged into liquidation.
Their candid expressions of their fears for the future should be read by those in the corridors of power so they feel the real-world impacts of their decisions.
Today's agenda:
Polls are open for the European Parliament elections
9.30am – Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright answers departmental questions in the Commons
10.30am – MPs hear the timetable for future parliamentary business
Late afternoon – Commons rises for a 12-day Whitsun recess
10pm – Polls close for the European Parliament elections
What I am reading:
Danny Finkelstein's harsh but fair verdict on Change UK (£££)
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