The Downing Street version of how Brexit will be handled. This is the crucial paragraph. I think the UK gov think the EU is resisting, my take is the EU has accepted this but being experienced trade negotiators know the focus has to be on the detail - "own course" in what? 
There is also as I've said before a fundamental clash between Johnson's view on regulation (too much, and the EU is the worst culprit) and modern trade realities (how can we find ways to align regulation in various ways to reduce trade barriers)
Then the idea that will keep recurring of lining up the US an an 'alternative'. US trade deals have different forms of regulatory alignment to EU ones. Food of course the flashpoint. They also don't offer much in return.
And sequencing is not the issue this time that it was last time. The issue this time is finding the UK path - what does Brexit really mean? - and how we can then achieve this? Trade deals are the tool for that, not the end in themselves. /end @JGForsyth
