Déjà vu? The Eurostar has been booked. Strategic leaks of draft agreements have started.
The EU's former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is warning the UK it can't have it all and it will not be able to rejoin its single market "à la carte".
Naturally, there is even a row about smoky bacon crisps – an argument between the UK and EU about food labelling has become a classic of the genre. Remember the bendy banana? Or the so-called sausage war between Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron?
