Is a Brexit deal imminent?

Prime Minister’s Questions may have proved a rather dreary affair this week but there was one reply that has become a source of intrigue in Westminster: Boris Johnson on Brexit. When the SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford asked the Prime Minister whether he would commit to releasing ‘a detailed economic impact assessment of the cost to the UK of his extreme Tory Brexit plans’, Johnson sounded more upbeat on the prospects of a deal.Where Johnson has previously taken any opportunity going to stress that no deal is the most likely outcome, he did not today. Instead he talked more positively of the chances of a deal: 

‘There’s every opportunity, every hope that I have, that our friends and partners across the Channel will see sense and do a deal, and all that that takes is for them to understand that the UK has a natural right, like every other country, to want to be able to control its own laws and its own fishing grounds.