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Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shorts, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

Today had been marked out as the critical deadline date by which a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU should be

substantially agreed, or else there would be no deal at all. A discussion between Boris Johnson

and the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was scheduled for this lunchtime to try to

thrash out the last-minute disagreements between the two sides. Ahead of that discussion,

the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab gave Andrew Maher his analysis of the situation.

If we don't get an agreement by the end of today, is that it?

Are we out without a deal?

Well, I think we've always said today was a very important staging point.

It depends.

We said a week ago, we must leave no stone unturned. I spoke to the negotiating team

first thing this morning. They've been hard at it. There's all sorts of technical conversations

going on. But what really matters is the political will, which is why the conversation between

Ursula von der Leyen and the Prime Minister is so important. Will the EU move on the two key

issues, level playing field, control of our landlords and fisheries.

If there is the will to do that, then actually we, you know, there's progress that can be made.

Can you keep talking beyond today?

I think today is quite important. The bar is quite high for us to be able to keep talking.

We would need at a political level commitment to move on those two key issues.

Because you originally said that

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