The Tory breakaway Three has a different flavour to the Labour Seven (now eight). Before it was a line up of angry and rather bitter also rans who talked mainly about themselves and whose Monday drama had by Wednesday slipped off the headlines. This time it is three Tory women, each of whom is a success in her own right in business, the law or medicine and who, because of their knowledge and experience outside the Westminster bubble, have called out their party in government for being blindly hell bent on a course to wreck our country. This is powerful stuff.
It may be that by Friday they too are forgotten and vaguely referred to as part of the Independent Group of Eleven (if you are old like me you will remember the Gang of Four) or it may be that they have started something much much bigger.
We shall just have to wait and see what happens next. You can bet on something, but not on what.