EU’s Barnier 'more concerned than ever’ about no deal Brexit as May ...

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Britain could crash out of the EU by accident in March without a deal, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator is reported to have told colleagues.

Michel Barnier told a French radio station today that he was ‘more worried than before’ after a week in which Theresa May and senior ministers visited Brussels in a bid to hammer out a workable plan.

And he privately told ambassadors that there was a high chance of an ‘accidental’ Brexit, the Guardian reported.

It came as Mrs May was warned not to expect a ‘deal in the desert’ to emerge from talks with European Council president Donald Tusk in Egypt on Sunday.