UK trade minister Liam Fox says EU pushing Britain to no-deal Brexit | DW |

Britain's international trade secretary, Liam Fox, has put the odds of the UK leaving the European Union without agreeing terms to formally finalize its exit at 60-40.

"I think the intransigence of the [European] Commission is pushing us toward no deal," he told British newspaper The Sunday Times in an interview published late Saturday.

"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] then there is only going to be one outcome," he said.

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Meanwhile, another prominent Brexiteer, former minister Priti Patel, has called on Mrs May to have the "backbone and confidence" to back Britain in the negotiations with the EU.

She said the UK was in a "strong position" when it came to a future trade deal because "we are dynamic, competitive and growing" - while the EU "desperately needs our money".

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