You've built your whole understanding out of cliché, and it is entirely wrong.
The reason for delay is, or so is believed, to blackmail parliament into accepting at the last minute what they otherwise would not.
You really need to make up your mind what you think she's doing. And there are two possibilities. I know what I think she's up to.
I think she's actually trying to find it. I don't think it exists, but i think she is trying to find it.
I don't think she's operating to any plan at this stage, I think she's just got way out of her depth.
Every since then she has been stuck. She's not moving because she doesn't know what to do.
She's not running down any clocks. She hasn't got a fuckin clue what to do next. She really hasn't.
She's got no majority, and now her party itself is even falling apart around her ears.