Putting aside any sense of false confidence, this does feel an awful lot like a repeat of last time. Johnson wanting to be seen flying in and sorting it all out with a quick chat. 
Let's say you're the PM and you're planning for no-deal. You'd want to keep yourself as far away from it as possible so the personal responsibility doesn't lie with you. Why bring yourself into it more than needs be?
But if you were going for a deal, or were at least minded to, you'd want to get your face right into that shit: be seen doing that harsh final moment of negotiation, come back triumphant from Brussels, snatching victory from impending defeat, all that.
It's all very tiresome analysing this stuff. Like trying to establish whether a goldfish has a sense of self. But that statement looks pretty deal-y to me.
And even if that seems more than could be fairly concluded, you can least say this with confidence: No.10 definitely hasn't decided that it's no-deal, or Johnson wouldn't be anywhere near that shit.
Double negative. Fuck my life. What a monster I have become.
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