Chief EU Brexit negotiator: No time for 'cherry picking' on issues like single market

'Time will be short'

Natalie Kenway
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The European Union's chief negotiator for Brexit has said a deal between the UK and the EU will have to be reached by October 2018, just 18 months after UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to trigger Article 50 next March.

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