Unlikely for UK to crash out of EU without deal, says Irish PM

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday that it was unlikely Britain would crash out of the European Union without a deal on March 29.

Asked by journalists in Belfast whether a deal was close, Varadkar said he did not want to say much as "we are entering quite a sensitive period over the next week or two".

"But I think that the United Kingdom crashing out of the European Union on March 29 without a deal is unlikely. I think we will have a deal or we'll have an extension," he said.