Brexit progress?

From The Times Red Box:

Getting a deal for the whole of the UK will not be easy. It certainly hasn't been so far.

There was the question of the timetable, which Davis said would be the "big row of the summer" before caving in and agreeing to settle the divorce bill first. There was Boris Johnson telling Brussels to "go whistle" in its demands for divorce payments before agreeing to pay £50 billion, possibly more, possibly for ever. 

Freedom of movement was going to end on exit day in March 2019, and now it isn't. We would take back control of our fishing waters on exit day, and now we're not. We were going to tell the European Courts of Justice to get stuffed, but maybe not just yet, if at all.

And then there is Ireland. The never-ending, apparently insoluble question of preventing a hard border while having separate customs and trading regimes on either side of it. No amount of smart technology or likening it to driving out of Camden has yet found a way of keeping Northern Ireland in the UK while also open to Ireland.

Just about sums it up ...