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

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Osive and Katie Balls.

So will there or won't there be a deal?

Late last night there were whispers that actually a deal

may be a bit further away than people thought. Katie, what do we hear last night? So I think

there was a growing sense, though, I think some people remain sceptical as I've had to cover

Brexit for the past, you know, three years or so, but there was a growing sense that we were edging

towards a Brexit deal. You had

some quite optimistic reports in the press. I think the daily mail reported that we could have had a

deal as soon as yesterday. And I think there was hope that there was movement on fishing and you

obviously had the overnight talks. But then last night you began to hear from the UK side that

in the afternoon talks are taking a term for the worse and that this was because in their view, the goalposts had been moved by the other side.

So not on fish, but talking about things like level playing field.

The EU and the UK side started to change what it was talking about, adding in things. This, I think,

has not been fully confirmed by the EU side, but I think there is a sense that at the last minute

people were trying to do grabs, you know, get more from it and this was causing problems in terms

of the talks. I think there's also talk that perhaps part of the reason they're pushing more for things

in other places is because the deal on fisheries is not as good as the EU wanted. So if they're going

to go along with that, they want more elsewhere. So I think that's the point we're at. I think you're

looking at the countries which, you know, the member states, which are the most opposed. We go back to

France, which we

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