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The prime minister, rishi sunak. and of course we've been building towards this now we've been hearing from multiple people who have knowledge of the talks that they were slowly getting there. downing street, all the while, have been saying no final deal is yet done. the statement we've had tonight doesn't say a final deal is yet done, but i think it'd be pretty strange if ursula von der leyen, the european commission president, so a real eu chief here, was to go all the way to the united kingdom to meet with rishi sunak, to talk about the northern ireland protocol at this stage and not announ...

Rules that affect them. with more here's our political correspondent, iain watson. what better way to flag that an agreement with the eu is coming closer? the eu commission president, ursula von der leyen, will meet the prime minister tomorrow in london for the talks that could seal a deal. there is no deal done until the whole deal is done. but i think we've made progress. and what's emerging is exactly what the deal could involve. post—brexit, to keep an open border on the island of ireland, some eu rules continue to apply in northern ireland, and goods coming from great britain are subjec...

There are three reasons for it. one is it allows a reset of the uk's relationship with the eu, so at the extreme end, he avoids the risk of a trade war, but even if things don't go that far, he gets a lot of benefits from resetting relations and unfreezing a lot of cooperation, for example, on universities, on financial services, on lots of aspects of trade that will help the uk economy. secondly, it offers a reset on relations with the us and washington, which have been it may be a bit less deep frozen but still chilly since the two this spat with the eu on the northern ireland protocol, when...

Any future eu laws, to see if that is really delivered right in the depths of the text. if they don't like it then in effect he will only have done half the job. he will have got the eu on board, power—sharing will not be restored to northern ireland, which is potentially embarrassing because obviously the american president, joe biden, would like to visit on the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement later this year. that's coming up very soon, isn't it? in terms of the objections of the dup, where are they likely to hinge and what price might they extract in order to back it? i thin...

Correspondent, jessica parker, from brussels to discuss the possibility of a deal announcement soon. . i think there's a lot of clues. clue number one is that we have known through sources for a little while now that the plan was for ursula von der leyen to head to the uk to do the final sign—off moment. so, obviously, she is now heading to the uk. she'll be in berkshire tomorrow to meet with the prime minister, rishi sunak. and of course we've been building towards this now we've been hearing from multiple people who have knowledge of the talks that they were slowly getting there. downing s...