UK top diplomat warns no Brexit deal 'now a very real risk'

Britain's top diplomat warned today that the country could crash out of the European Union next year without an agreement on future relations with Brussels because of the hard line taken by EU negotiators.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told reporters in Berlin after meeting German counterpart Heiko Maas that "there is now a very real risk of a Brexit no deal by accident." "This is because I think that many people in the EU are thinking they just have to wait long enough and Britain will blink," he said. "And that's not going to happen."
"Britain will find that challenging but in the end we will find a way not just to survive but to thrive economically," he said. "But my real concern is that it will change British public attitudes to Europe for a generation." Maas said his country "doesn't want a disorderly Brexit. We want a deal."