Thread by @SamCoatesSky

As just told @KayBurley on @SkyNews we understand the cabinet to be told at 5pm that:
- the concern is the EU "are not under any real pressure to engage on solutions until they know the process is not going to be taken over by Parliament."
- until then EU say Brits not serious

Exc 2 - leak cabinet 5pm briefing being circulated in Whitehall cont.
- "The EU will only get down to serious talks when they know they have to face the choice between a deal or no deal, with the third option of extension / referendum / revocation definitively ruled out".

Exc 3 - leak cabinet 5pm briefing cont
- "So what happens in Parliament in the next ten days will be critical. If we emerge with renewed authority, we can then get talking seriously through Sept and up to Oct European Council"
- Claims EU Com "are willing to look at alternatives"

Exc 4 - leak cabinet 5pm briefing cont
- (On Backstop) "We have preliminary worked-up legal texts plus assessments of the legal and process changes needed to replace checks otherwise required at Irish border, and will feed all these in at the right moment"

Exc 5 - leak cabinet 5pm briefing cont
- "Obviously the EU will not welcome any of this. My concern is that the are not under any real pressure to engage on solutions until they know the process is not being taken over by Parliament."

Does logic lead to an election? We'll see