Theresa May will vote Brexit after her promise to resign: latest updates

While lawmakers are arguing over whether or not they could debate tomorrow, let's wait for Monday – the second day of indicative votes in a process controlled not by the government, but by the former minister and current MP of West Dorset, West Lorsin, Oliver Letwin.

If Wednesday was the group stage – or, as American sports fans would say, the regular season – Monday would be the playoffs, where the biggest winners (or rather, the smaller losers) would go to the direct vote.

Members are expected to opt for only one option on Monday, in order to obtain a more convincing result. The exact number of choices that will be proposed to them remains to be staged.

Michael HeseltineMargaret Thatcher's former deputy prime minister told CNN's Richard Quest Thursday that he expects Monday's debate organizers to combine some of the proposals with the most votes on Wednesday. He suggested that a combination of a customs union agreement with a second confirmation referendum could command a majority that "would get us out of this mess".

The Commons echoed this point of view in the Commons, where former Conservative Minister Edward Leigh had stated that "there is nothing to stop" Oliver Letwin – who orchestrated the process of indicative votes – to "reduce the options to an option, which is almost certainly the result last night, it would be a permanent membership of the customs union."

"Nothing prevents him from including this in a bill, nothing prevents him from making an Act of Parliament and then, the choice will be between – and I say it to my colleagues – a permanent member of the customs union or a general election, "he added.

A customs union project almost reached the majority of MPs who voted last night, losing by 271 votes to 265, while a second confirmation referendum garnered the most votes – this project was lost by 295 votes to 268.

And Chuka Umunna, the group's independent deputy and leading activist for a popular vote, is optimistic that the plan will have an audience.

"We would never get a result that would determine what we would do next," he told the BBC. "This is the first part of a process … the second part is to take place on Monday, and I'm obviously happy because the People's Vote option got the highest score . "

But he suggested that MPs could have more options to consider. "We now have to reduce the options on Monday to two or three options and then make a decision," he said.