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The Sun is reporting that Jean Claude Juncker, who is soon to be replaced as the President of the EU Commission by Ursula vin der Leyen, is saying that "We can have a deal" and "Brexit will happen".
But the report goes on to say that, although the UK government has lodged proposals with Brussels, Juncker has not yet read them. So you do have to wonder where this change of heart came from, don't you.
Especially as the Irish deputy PM, Simon Coveney, is warning of the still wide gap between the UK and EU on any new Brexit deal.
With the Mirror reporting that while Boris was saying "I don't want to exaggerate the progress that we are making, but we are making progress", Coveney was saying that "people should not be taken in" by the current talks.
"Deputy PM Simon Coveney attacked "spin", said "we're not close to that deal right now" and even warned of "civil unrest" just hours after EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker said it can be done." Reported the Mirror and also quoted Coveney as saying that Ireland could become 'collateral damage'.
And here was me thinking the EU27 were all as one. Well I never.
The news has though stabilised the currency markets with the pound recovering little of its recently lost ground.
Now there are worries in the Labour party that some of its MPs may be tempted to vote for a Boris Johnson deal.
This has brought out senior Labourites to try and head the possibility off at the pass.
And they are pointing to a report from the People's Vote campaign that highlights the risks to the NHS, workers' rights, food standards, the Irish border and the internet of any such deal.
With the deputy Labour leader, Tom Watson saying a Boris deal would be "of the right, by the right and for the right".
And veteran Labour MP Margaret Beckett said:
"Any MP who might be tempted to back it needs to recognise the likelihood that a Johnson Brexit will destroy jobs, undermine public services and usher in the kind of offshore deregulated pirate economy which is the stuff of right-wing Tory dreams – and our nightmares."
Well anything that gives the current Labour party nightmares is OK with me.
But this will also be giving Brexiteers the herby-jeebies, because any deal struck at this stage will be a compromise deal built around Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement surrender treaty.
And that will be something the Tory Eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) will be keen to shy away from.
If you remember there was talk that the PM had held private talks with ERG members reportedly to get them to vote for this deal so that it would get through a vote in the Commons, which would then negate the need for Boris to write that letter asking the EU Council for an Article 50 extension, under the terms of the Benn Surrender Act.
Then the deal would be killed off, possibly by proroguing parliament again or by stalling until Brexit Day, solacing to a no deal Brexit.
There are now risks for both sides in voting for the deal and there are risks for Boris af Remainer amending his substantive motion with all sorts of Remainer demands to pass the deal.
Or worse to just ditch it and go full on revoke.
His stakes gambles for all here I think.
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