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1. Open the notebook back up at the last page before Christmas in Westminster and it doesn't feel like there many new lines that need to be written
2. No 10 trying to eke out more reassurances on time line of backstop from EU, and find a way to make MPs feel they'll have more of a say
3. EU has no intention of major change to legal agreement that's been sweated over - nor do MPs show sign yet of swinging behind May's compromise deal in anything like the number it would take to give her a real shot at getting it thro next week
4. On way to PM speech where as so often, she wants to talk about something else, but there's huge appetite to know what she will do if and when No 10 admits/accepts current plan is leading them towards a brick wall
5. While MP s returning to work coming up with ever more alternative versions of what to do instead - Common Market 2.0 and cross party push to guarantee against no deal two of the latest
6. Welcome to 2019 - and Happy New Year
