No-deal Brexit looms as trade talks enter final day – follow live

Dominic Raab has told Sky News there was still “a long way to go” on brokering an agreement.

“I called in to check in with our team in Brussels, they’ve worked incredibly hard”, he said.

“You remember the PM has made clear we want to leave no stone unturned, so we’ve been at it very hard at the working technical level, with all the usual jousting of positions

“But what really matters is what the EU is willing at a political level to commit to.

“There’s a conversation that Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the (European) Commission, will have with the Prime Minister later today – that’s when we’ll know.

“But I think we need to be really clear there’s two fundamental issues at stake – the issue of fisheries and the issue of the so-called level playing field.

“We want to be treated like any other independent self-respecting democracy. If the EU can accept that at a political level then there’s every reason to be confident, but there is still I think a long way to go.”

Here is Labour’s Jess Philips following reports in the Mail on Sunday that Angela Merkel was looking to see the UK ‘crawl over broken glass’ for an agreement.

The UK’s chief trade envoy to Brussels David Frost has arrived ahead of a day of talks. Here is the BBC’s Richard Colebourn

• The foreign secretary has refused to rule out trade talks going on past the deadline, saying he “can not close the door” on an extension to negotiations
• Mr Raab said there is still a “long way to go” on talks and that what matters is what the EU wants to commit to “on a political level”
• Fisheries and the level playing field remain the two main sticking points
• Mr Raab urges “movement and flexibility” from the EU, adding “if we are 99 per cent there you don’t want to leave any stone unturned”

The foreign secretary Dominic Raab is on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday (sans Ms Ridge who is moving house today apparently) – and has said conflict with the EU was because Brussels was “concerned the UK might do rather well” after Brexit and was set on stifling its ability to compete.

He added that technical level negotiations were ongoing, adding that “the PM is clear we want to leave no stone unturned”.

He went on to say the “political logjam” could only be eased by the prime minister and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen, who are due to speak later.

France has shrugged off threats to send in Royal Navy gunships to guard Channel fishing waters, ahead of a feared announcement that talks to avert a no-deal Brexit have failed.