On the theme of last night's Newsnight, the programme also covered the Downing Street meeting between Boris John and Ursula von der Leyen, the new President of the European Commission.
It was business as usual as far as BBC reporting goes, however, with Emily Maitlis quoting the words of Mrs von der Leyen as if they were written on tablets of stone.
Nick Watt was at it too: Mrs VDL was delivering "home truths" to the Prime Minister, he said.
We've been here many times before, with those "home truths" turning out to be just the EU side's point of view, and far from unchangeable holy writ.
As a woman, Mrs von der Leyen will have been charmed by Boris and left in no doubt that behind all the mushy "friends in Europe" talk there are demands that the EU will have to consider and either accept or reject. Given that no deal is the result of EU rejection of UK demands, it's a game of chicken to see who will swerve to avoid no deal. Let's hope it's the EU because the UK's biggest card is "no deal, no billions" and an EU budget crisis.
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