Plenty of talk about Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid doing deals to give each other free runs in target seats (following on from the Brecon by-election where Plaid stood aside for the Lib Dems) but also a lot going on in Northern Ireland:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...apon-live-news

Loathing of Brexit united remainers and finally broke Northern Ireland’s binary nationalist v unionist divide. Well, so it seemed for a few heady days.

Last week Steve Aiken, the incoming leader of the Ulster Unionist party (UUP), upended convention by ruling out an electoral pact with the Democratic Unionist party (DUP). As an opponent of Brexit Aiken said he felt duty-bound to run candidates in all 18 constituencies to give pro-remain unionists an alternative to the DUP.

Even in north Belfast, he said. Meaning Aiken was willing to split the unionist vote and give Sinn Fein’s John Finucane a better chance of taking the seat from the DUP’s deputy leader, Nigel Dodds.

An audacious move that prompted swift backlash. Unionists inside and outside the UUP protested. Suspected loyalist paramilitaries threatened retaliation against the UUP.

At the weekend Aiken caved and said his party would skip north Belfast, giving Dodds, the DUP’s Brexit policy architect, a clear run at sweeping up unionists, be they leavers or remainers.

The DUP, in turn, will give the UUP a clear run in the marginal seat of Fermanagh and south Tyrone.

The moderate nationalist SDLP then announced it too would stand aside in north Belfast to boost Finucane’s chances. (See 12pm.) The stated reason is to let remain voters rally around a single candidate, even one who would abstain from Westminster. The other reason is to pressure Sinn Fein to stand aside in south Belfast and boost the SDLP’s chance of nabbing the seat from the DUP.

Unionism and nationalism, remain and leave, all simmering together in a Northern Irish stew.

There will be more talk of electoral pacts this time than ever, but if Tories and Brexit don't do a deal (even a secret one) and the Labour and Lib Dem hostility remains at DefCom 4 I don't see much happening in practice.