The prime minister's original claim that all the guidelines were followed seem almost farcical now.
And late on Monday, they were not suddenly full of new panic that it was all about to fall apart - indeed, after what they believe was a better outing for Mr Johnson in private in front of his MPs on Monday night, they believe the would-be rebels who want to see him gone don't have any meaningful new momentum.
It cannot have been easy for many of them to endure Keir Starmer's stand-out speech in the Commons on Monday, when he quoted Thatcher at them, urging them to act to end what seems to him, and some of them, a sorry saga.
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