Just when you thought the Brexit battle lines have been defined, along comes the gruesome possibility that Theresa May might end up adopting the Labour Party Brexit policy.
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So, after all those red lines that Theresa May drew out so firmly, it looks like one of them might well be about to be spectacularly undrawn.
The Independent is reporting that, hard on the heels of the Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn meeting as well as the Trade Union visits to Downing Street, Whitehall officials have started doing what is being called 'serious work' on keeping the UK inside a customs union with the EU after Brexit, which will of course infuriate all Brexiteers.
It seems that Theresa May is coming under pressure from some cabinet colleagues to relent on this, so as to come to some sort of compromise with Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour Party, should her deal come unstuck again.
And the thinking goes that even if Corbyn himself does not come on board with this new plan, many of his MPs may well do so. There is also the probability that some Tory MPs will be won round too.
The Independent quotes what it calls a well-placed Whitehall source as saying:
"There is serious work going on about a customs union. We need to be prepared, so we are ready if the politics moves in that direction."
Now, it is well known that Corbyn's Labour Party has the rather shaky Brexit policy of staying in a permanent customs union with the EU where the Labour front-benchers dream that they will be at the table with Eurocrats dictating trade policy wh..