Another two goals for Zlatan Ibrahimovic this morning when LA Galaxy played 3-3 vs MLS League leaders LAFC away in the LA derby.

Ibra scored his two goals forst 15 minutes of the game. He has now scored 22 goals in 27 games this season. In total 44 goaös in 49 games for LA Galaxy.

The prime minister has said the chances of leaving the EU without a deal are “touch and go” – having previously said they were “a million to one”.

In a BBC interview at the G7 summit in France, he said it “all depends on our EU friends and partners”.

When pressed on the chances, he said: “I think it’s going to be touch and go. But the important thing is to get ready to come out without a deal.”

Mr Johnson has repeatedly said the UK will leave the EU on 31 October.

Here is the article: A Brexit deal is now ‘touch and go’, says Johnson

Source: BBC, Sky News

In an article in The Irish Times, Shanker Singham, adviser on trade who chairs the technical panel of the non-governmental Alternative Arrangements Commission, argues that it is time for Ireland to consider a Plan B to the backstop.

Singham said his group had been in discussions with Downing Street about its alternative arrangements.

“…the game has changed completely in Westminster”

The commission would be publishing suggested changes to the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration, the non-binding road map setting out a future EU-UK trade deal, “in the course of the next week or so” that would add more detail to its proposed arrangements around the alternative to the backstop, he said.

“We are now in a world where the choice is alternative arrangements versus no-deal, not alternative arrangements versus backstop”

Mr. Singham said he could “sympathise” with Mr Varadkar and Mr Coveney if the choice around the UK’s exit was either the alternative arrangements or the backstop, but he added that “the game has changed completely in Westminster” with the election of Mr Johnson as prime minister.

“We are now in a world where the choice is alternative arrangements versus no-deal, not alternative arrangements versus backstop. In that world I think you would want to be talking,” he said.

You can read the article here:Ireland must ‘open up’ to plan B to backstop