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Not really. It’s up to the EU to agree a very easy solution by agreeing to high level disciplines on anti subsidy regimes in the FTA with FTA dispute settlement including withdrawal of concessions as is normal in trade policy. https://twitter.com/asentance/status/1337730204580671488
Reheating old proposals that lock the UK into the UK’s legal order In various different ways is not a serious negotiation. If the EU got into the real world, a deal is quite easy. But that is their choice not ours.
It’s particularly mystifying because that sort of deal would completely answer the EU’s legitimate concern that the UK might distort its market for competitive advantage. Without it they have no such disciplines, and there is no guarantee that a future UK gov would not do this
And no deal means no French agriculture would be sold to the UK at all, and no French fishermen would be able to fish in the UK EEZ at all. Pretty clear whose failure this would be. The current deal on the table favours the EU’s agricultural and manufacturing enormously.
