This has been reported elsewhere, but Michel Barnier indeed gave another downbeat assessment on prospects for a deal to the General Affairs Council (GAC) this morning, similar, if not worse, to the 'incredibly' gloomy assessment yesterday.
It appears that more member states are calling for No Deal contingency measures to be brought forward, and there is some suggestion - not confirmed - that these measures will go before the College of Commissioners tomorrow morning.
"Barnier said to the GAC, we're at a tipping point and it's now tipping in the direction of no deal, and the contingency measures will add to this," says one source present. "The focus is now increasingly here on no deal."
"I'm not sure London has grasped the extent to which a number of member states, even ones normally sympathetic to the UK, are now looking at no deal. There's quite a bit of momentum to no deal," says the source
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