In the morning Boris Johnson will fly to Ireland for his first face-to-face meeting with Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister. However neither side have set expectations for the meeting any higher than allowing the two men to try to build a personal rapport.

In the afternoon Mr Johnson will be back in the Commons for a second attempt to get MPs to back an early election on October 15. Given the deal between opposition parties last week to oppose such a move before a further EU extension is granted this also looks set to fail as it needs a two-thirds majority.

So what happens then?

The first question for the prime minister in the aftermath of the vote is whether to move immediately to