Thread by @Usherwood

A quick summary of how @MichelBarnier & @DavidGHFrost have commented on progress in Future Relationship negotiations up to today

PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic35

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By taking the public statements of the two, it's possible to map out where they see things standing

Barnier: bit.ly/EURounds
Frost: bit.ly/UKRounds

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Several points to note:
- The problem areas are the same they've always been (LPF, fish, governance and law enforcement)
- Round 6 was the first of the accelerated programme, so reason to make +ve sounds
- intermittent +ve sounds away from the big problems

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This suggests that the political level remains the issue, and that the June meetings by Johnson didn't resolve any of those

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If you'd like another view, then I put their statements through a basic sentiment analysis site (danielsoper.com/sentimentanaly…) and got this: Barnier's tending -ve, while Frost bounces around a lot more

(I'd value anyone with a more rigorous tool's input on this one BTW)

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Overall, technical negotiations have gone about as far as they can for now

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