The big question for me tonight is whether @JGForsyth’s column on the government’s reservations about the EU’s free trade negotiating position characterises @BorisJohnson’s thinking, or someone else at the top of government, such as @michaelgove. The reason this matters is...

that much of what Forsyth describes as obstacles to a deal has already been removed by the EU, or (the EU has told @DavidGHFrost) will be sorted. So these are either not the roadblocks @BorisJohnson is actually worried about, or they are paper tigers, that will be vanquished...

before Sunday, to allow the PM to announce victory and a deal. So Forsyth’s column is either the PM preparing the ground to declare victory and a deal, or a desperately anxious colleague of his trying to show the PM how to avoid no deal and claim victory. I can’t judge which...

it may be. But the distinction is vital to any judgement about whether no deal is overwhelmingly likely or only possible. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-eu-has-dangerously-misread-britain-tlltcnwj9