Lots more on today's cabinet later on @bbcnews but a quick thread of what was discussed
1. Cabinet agreed horror of missing a November deal deadline - not impossible but deeply undesirable
1. Cabinet agreed horror of missing a November deal deadline - not impossible but deeply undesirable
2. Geoffrey Cox, the Attorney General, said there as a spectrum of what was possible for mechanism for escaping the backstop - ie not being trapped in neither in nor out limbo for ever - ministers say he softened his position from last week which has made a difference
3. Some ministers did urge PM to be hardline on need for limit to backstop +ability for UK to get out of it on its own, but s no big confrontation - ministers were presented a paper that set out difference btw November deal or waiting til December - it was confiscated at the end
4. In short term, ministers told be ready for another Cabinet meeting, maybe even at end of this week, because there might be enough movement by then to push button on a deal
