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		</div><p>Boris Johnson said he remained “cautiously optimistic” about the prospect of a Brexit deal despite the limited time available ahead of the scheduled October 31 withdrawal date.</p>
<p>The British Prime Minister said the UK side had made some “pretty big moves” towards a deal but it was up to Brussels to respond to find the right “landing zone”.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Chancellor Sajid Javid said a no-deal Brexit “may well happen” on October 31 despite a law aimed at preventing Mr Johnson from taking the UK out of the European Union without an agreement.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister said the October 31 date would be met “whatever happens”.</p>
<p>Speaking during a visit to a cash-and-carry business in Manchester, he said: <em>“I’m cautiously optimistic. We have made some pretty big moves, we are waiting to see whether our European friends will help us and whether we can find the right landing zone.</em></p>
<p><em>“But whatever happens, we’ll come out on October 31.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Javid said he thinks he knows how the Prime Minister intends to achieve the October 31 withdrawal despite the restrictions of the Benn Act.</p>
<p>The law was rushed through Parliament to require the Prime Minister to seek a delay to Brexit if a deal has not been agreed by October 19, or if MPs have not agreed to leave the EU without one.</p>
<p>But there have been suspicions in pro-EU circles that the Prime Minister will try to avoid complying with the requirements.</p>
<p>The Chancellor told the BBC:<em> “Of course, every government should observe all laws at all times.</em></p>
<p><em>“We’re taking a careful look at that law.”</em></p>
<p>He said there could be no more “dither and delay and we will leave if we have to without a deal on October 31”.</p>
<p>Asked if he knew how the Government would get around the Benn Act, he replied: <em>“I think I do.</em></p>
<p><em>“The intention of the law is clear and I do think it has absolutely made it harder for the Government to get the deal that we all want to see. That said, it can still be done.</em></p>
<p><em>“It’s not about getting around the law… I don’t really want to discuss the detail of this law, it’s a pretty fresh new law, but we are also clear at all times we, of course, like any government, we will absolutely observe the law.”</em></p>
<p>The Chancellor said he was not sure how much a no-deal Brexit would cost the economy in the short term.</p>
<p><em>“I don’t think anyone really knows a full proper answer to that question.</em></p>
<p><em>“And I have never pretended that if you leave without a deal it won’t be challenging.”</em></p>
<p>DUP leader Arlene Foster, who said on Sunday she would look at the prospect of a time limit on the Irish backstop, said that was a “world of difference” away from actually agreeing to one.</p>
<p>Brexiteers including the Prime Minister have called for the contingency plan – which will avoid a hard border in Ireland by keeping the UK closely tied to Brussels’ rules – to be scrapped entirely.</p>
<p>But a time limit on the measure – if the EU could agree to it – would address one of their concerns, which is its indefinite nature.</p>
<p>Mrs Foster told a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference: <em>“I didn’t say that we would accept that, I said that we would look at it – there is a world of difference.”</em></p>
<p>Eurosceptic Tory Mark Francois, one of the hardline Brexiteers nicknamed the Spartans, said he would not be forced to back a deal and the “acid test” would be whether it delivered on the commitment to actually leave the EU.</p>
<p><em>“If there is a deal, as a so-called Spartan, if it means that we genuinely leave the European Union at Halloween then I will be the first in the Aye lobby,”</em> he told a fringe event.</p>
<p><em>“But if it really means we don’t, I will be against it and no amount of browbeating by anybody will make me change my mind.”</em></p>
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