Breaking: sources are suggesting a Brexit deal is now within sight, and that a text is taking shape. One source speaks of "guarded optimism"
2/ Much will depend on how far the EU is prepared to relax its demand that regulatory alignment and the customs issue are legally operable, and how far the UK has been prepared to be nudged back to the NI-only backstop
...in other words, EU not likely to relax those demands very much...
3/ Negotiators still hard at it and it could go beyond a notional midnight deadline into the early hours. Any text would first go to the College of Commissioners tomorrow morning, and a meeting of EU27 ambassadors at 14hr CET
4/ Caution: not over the line, but one source says they are "as optimistic" as they have been in a while
