That was a fairly long Parliamentary debate to set through, but worth it in some ways. I regret that it was passed unopposed, but I can see why the Conservatives might think that the least damaging option.

Attendance is often poor at these events but it looks like for quite a long time there were only 5 MPs on the government benches. Even so, there were very few people who spoke in support of the PM.

There a few rather odd theological discussions, with Steve Baker throwing chapter and verse into the debate from both the Old and New Testaments, then later Chris Bryant riffing on the Biblical nature of forgiveness and how it does not mean freedom from consequence.

Many of the speeches drifted off topic despite admonishments from the Speaker(s) into Johnson's wider dishonesty rather than the deliberately narrow instances listed in the motion and quite a few were largely reading out the problems their constituents had. These are important, of course, but not actually to do with the strict motion.

The fact the motion passed unopposed gave a somewhat anticlimatic end to the debate, but I think we just not move to a new scene in the drama.

Opinions from anyone else who watched it are welcomed