barclay told us that the government believes this plan represents the best way forward. these are serious proposals and when the prime minister spoke yesterday with the president, john claudeland secretary told us he doesn't believe the proposals go far enough. we don't yet know how brussels will react and i will be amazed if the package as it stands is one that brussels views with favour, but, you know, in the end borisjohnson even in an agreed deal, if he can get that far with the uk parliament, it simply won't find favour in the uk. it's got so many holes in it. in a moment, we can speak to our reporter adam fleming in brussels. first let's go to our political correspondent, nick eardley, who's at downing street. in the wake of those proposals being announced yesterday there is a cabinet meeting. a couple of ministers have arrived already and the big discussion is about how to persuade europe and parliament that this deal is a goer. there are three groups that borisjohnson has to win over, at home, if the deal is going to fly. the dup are the first one, the irish unionists, they have suggested in the last 24 hours that they are open to these ideas even though it might m