Timing is everything!
Jean-Claude Juncker, says: “We can have a deal.”
BoJo however really wants to wait until after the Tory conference in two weeks ( they may be divided over Brexit, but united against a Corbyn Government) or even until the EU summit in four before ‘spilling the beans ‘ of a deal?
Cynics will say that his do or die promise was made to win the Tory leadership contest, and they may be right, but he won , and we will leave on 31/10/2019, how, is still debatable, but leave we will!

Kinnock , Flint and other Labour members have been to meet Barnier this week in Brussels to see if there is a way to alter the May deal that will be acceptable to both sides.
With apologies to Ireland , both sides of the border, but Brexit is about the the whole of the U.K. leaving the EU , for a variety of reasons, as democratically decided by a majority of voters in a U.K. wide referendum.
It is clearly important to the 4.8 million people living In the South, and the 1.9 million people living in the North of the island of Ireland , but frankly the referendum was about the 65 plus million people in the whole of the U.K.!
It is and never was about a hard border or a ‘so called’ backstop, for the 17.4 million majority, it was for the future of these 65 million U.K. souls, and with the clear knowledge that there would be a price to pay, it is and never should have been about a relatively small number of people holding a very large number of people to ransom!
The whole problem therefore lies within Ireland , both north and south of the border, with Leo trying to save the coalition that he leads, and Foster unbending , but beginning to realise what a ‘ no deal’ may mean to NI jobs and the economy, and perhaps becoming more flexible in her approach?
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has expressed concern that any hard border could be a “direct threat” to its members, and recent NI opinion polls have shown that opinion is not only in favour of remain, also in favour of a customs union with the south rather than with Britain?
So, we wait for the Supreme Court, we wait for the Tory Conference and we wait for a Vote of no Confidence , and a General Election – timing is everything !