Remainers have had a painful reminder of what happens when they forget Mike Tyson's cardinal rule:: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

They have been busy congratulating each other after opposition parties gathered yesterday at Church House to declare their dislike of a no-deal Brexit and party leaders met to agree that legislation was needed to avert it, with little regard as to what the Government might do in the meantime.

Indeed, Remainers have been behaving as if victory was already in the bag, even though getting over 200 MPs to sign the "Church House declaration" saying they want to stop a no-deal is hardly a great achievement given that 400 voted against one in March's indicative votes round.

But they have been blindsided by Boris Johnson's announcement that he has asked the Queen to suspend Parliament days after it returns around mid-September, with MPs a week later than planned on Monday 14 October. Remainers are still reeling from the news, with John Bercow complaining he had "no contact" from the Government about this "constitutional outrage", while others froth about the “undemocratic“, “outrageous” actions of a “tin pot dictator”. Dominic Grieve rushed to tell BBC Radio 5 Live that he would "certainly vote to bring down" the government for persisting in "a course of action that is so unconstitutional".