Messy split
'No-deal' Brexit is now more likely than not, UK's Fox says
Fox says now 60% likelihood of no-deal outcome as clock ticks down to Britain's scheduled departure in March
Prime minister Theresa May's ministers are ratcheting up warnings that Brexit talks risk ending in failure, with international trade secretary Liam Fox on Sunday predicting a messy split from the European Union.
"The intransigence of the Commission is pushing us towards no deal," Fox told the Sunday Times. "We have set out the basis in which a deal can happen, but if the EU decides that the theological obsession of the unelected is to take priority over the economic well-being of the people of Europe, then it's a bureaucrats' Brexit – not a people's Brexit," and "there is only going to be one outcome".
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