This should have been an opportunity for Jeremy Corbyn to take Theresa May to the cleaners.
In the last few days she has faced an abortive coup, lost three ministers, failed to impose her authority on a warring Cabinet and been forced to cede control to Parliament.
The Labour leader surveyed the carnage before him, gave a brief message of thanks to the political gods, summoned his full rhetorical skills and decided this was just another dreary day the office.
His questions contained the usually commentary about the government being in chaos yet they somehow failed to match the sense of occasion.
Far from cleaning up, he barely got his marigolds on.
Mr Corbyn began by asking the same question he asked on Monday: what was the Prime Minister’s Plan B given her deal had been voted down twice.
Utterly predictably, Mrs May ignored the request and insisted the only plan on the table was her unloved withdrawal agreement.
The Labour leader then pressed the Prime Minister to say whether she would accept the directive of the Commons if there is a consensus in this afternoon’s indicative votes around an alternative Brexit.
Again, the Prime Minister refused to answer.
There then followed an exchange of whether or not the Government’s deal protected workers’ and environmental rights.
This was clever tactics by the Labour leader as it exposed how the Prime Minister’s commitment on these rights fall far short of what is needed to persuade Labour MPs to back her in a third meaningful vote.
Mrs May then did herself no favours by claiming “we are a Government that has enhanced workers’ rights.”
This was rightly met with derision from the Labour benches.
The Prime Minister appears to have forgotten the Trade Union Bill and the imposition of tribunal fees for employment cases.
Mr Corbyn ended by telling the Prime Minister to “change course or go.”
Mrs May replied by listing all the money the Tories were putting into public services before reprising her attack lines on Labour being a threat to the economy and the country’s standing in the world.
It was hogwash but it cheered the Tory benches.
You almost expected her to repeat Margaret Thatcher’s words at her last PMQs by declaring “I’m enjoying this.”
Is she on her way out? When asked by the SNP's Ian Blackford about her future, she replied her "sense of duty means I have kept working."
Note the past tense.
