The Financial Times quotes the Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin who says the Brexit negotiations are on a “knife edge” and he does not think people should be “overly optimistic about a resolution emerging”. However, Environment Secretary George Eustice insists that although the talks remain in a “very difficult position”, there is “still a deal to be done”. The FT says a team of negotiators will now target their focus to the rules governing competition between the UK and the EU, after it says both sides have agreed that fishing rules are “no longer the main obstacle to a deal”.