The Economist’s Paris bureau chief Sophie Pedder is hearing “cautiously encouraging” things from French officials on Monday. “There’s now ‘some hope’ of reaching a deal,” one told her.

It comes as respected Brexit analyst Mujtaba Rahman says level-playing issues are now “more likely to come together” after movement from the EU on remedial measures and arbitration, should the UK diverge from EU standards in future.

EU and British negotiators are on the “very last mile” in negotiations for a trade accord and the architecture in place is “fine” but details remain, the EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday.

“We are on the very last mile,” she told an OECD event via video link.

“We want a level playing field, not only at the start but also over time … this is the architecture that we are building,” she said. “We’re fine about the architecture itself but the details, do they really fit?”

A no-deal Brexit could still hit on 1 January even if a trade agreement is signed before the New Year, Michel Barnier has told MEPs.

The EU’s chief negotiator said in a private meeting in Monday morning that there could be a short period of no-deal while the accord was applied, according to an EU official present. Mr Barnier also reportedly told ambassadors from EU member states the same thing.

While the EU and UK have both made preparations to apply a trade deal on a “provisional” basis, it’s understood that this process might still not be fast enough to avoid a no-deal if talks go up to Christmas and beyond.

An EU diplomat, who was present at Michel Barnier’s private meeting with EU member ambassadors on Monday, has told reporters that “some limited progress” has been made in Brexit trade talks.

Britain and the EU made some limited progress in their trade talks, the bloc’s Brexit negotiator said on Monday, but remain at odds over state aid provisions and have moved further apart again on fisheries, according to a senior Brussels diplomat.

The diplomat spoke under condition of anonymity after the negotiator, Michel Barnier, updated the 27 national envoys to the EU hub Brussels on Monday morning.

The diplomat said there had been “some limited progress” on the enforcement mechanism but there had been disagreement over state aid and “backtracking” on fisheries.

More on panic buying now, following comments made by business secretary Alok Sharma this morning. He admitted food prices would increase in the event of no-deal but urged Britons not to “stockpile”.

“I wouldn’t advise people to stockpile … I think if you look overall I think we are talking less than 2 per cent [price rise] in terms of potential impact. Obviously there will be certain products where it may be a little bit more,” Mr Sharma said.

My colleague Adam Forrest has the full story:

It is hard to imagine a Brexit deal which would be “sufficient for Scotland”, the country’s constitution secretary has said.

Mike Russell’s comments came after Labour suggested it may be minded to support an agreement. He was asked on BBC Good Morning Scotland this morning whether SNP MPs would vote for a deal if one is agreed.

He said: “There will be two things; one is what is in the deal – but I find it difficult to imagine that any deal will be one which will be sufficient for Scotland. We voted against this but we won’t make any difference to this in terms of it, unfortunately.

“What we should be doing is saying this is utter folly even at this moment, look at this and imagine what a huge mistake you are making, which actually we now know is the view supported by the majority of people throughout the UK.”

Asked whether the way forward is to let SNP MPs decide to vote for it but to make clear that they are not happy with it, he said: “Why on Earth would we vote for the first time ever for a Brexit solution which is utterly the wrong thing for Scotland?”

Mr Russell added: “The real alternative is to say stop this folly, and if Boris Johnson were to give that choice I can guarantee what we would vote for.”

Our policy correspondent, Jon Stone, analyses the weekend’s happenings, and what comes next as the UK and EU meet again in Brussels on Monday for a final push to avoid no-deal.

Tory MP Sir Roger Gale has called for Boris Johnson’s resignation, should the prime minister fail to secure a trade deal with the European Union.

“If Mr Johnson fails to reach an acceptable trade agreement with the EU the Prime Minister will also have failed the people of the United Kingdom,” the North Thanet MP said on Twitter.

“As a lifelong member of the Conservative Party, I believe that Mr Johnson’s position as Prime Minister would be untenable.”

In a follow-up tweet, Sir Roger said: “As an honourable man, he would have to make way for somebody more able to pick up the pieces, to reunite the whole country and to show the leadership that Great Britain and Northern Ireland deserves.”