Welcome to Coffeehouse Shots for Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Fraser Nelson and I'm joined by James

Forsyth and Katie Balls. So Donald Tusk has made what he's presenting as a kind of newish offer to Britain.

He says that we've always been offered the Canada-style agreement that so many Tory backbenchers seem to favour.

So should we take this at face value, James?

Number 10 would say no, because they would say that this is only a Canada triple-plus deal for Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom.

In other words, there would still be a border in the Irish Sea.

It would leave Norman Island cleaved off.

I think what is interesting, though, is Tusk is nobody's fool.

And he has deliberately caused Theresa Mayer problem by using the language of Brexiteers.

It was remarkable yesterday because you had Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, all tweeting in quick succession.

Look, TASC is offering us, and David Davis as well.

Tusk is offering us Canada plus-plus-plus.

Just take that, Theresa May.

What's the problem?

And I think that you see this as an attempt by the EU to ramp up the pressure on Theresa May before the next round of Brexit negotiations.

Right, but James, I mean, Robbie Gibb and Theresa May spokesman tweeted you or didn't he quite when you made this point. So, no, Canada wouldn't cover Northern Ireland. But is there

a suggestion from the EU that it might do, but they might be able to have a Canada thing

that extends? So what some people think, including some people within the cabinet,

is that if you move to a Canada-style arrangement, because the French and the Commission would

feel that they had their pound of flesh, because the UK was not saying that it could in any way

stay within any part of a single market, but suddenly you would find them getting more creative

about how the Irish border could be kept largely as is,

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