BRUSSELS: Britain must broker its deal to leave the EU by October 2018, the bloc's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Tuesday, warning that time for talks was running out.

Frenchman Barnier added that an interim deal to soften the blow of Britain's departure was "difficult to imagine" unless it quickly told Brussels what it wanted from a Brexit deal.

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