Brexit deal in place 'by end of March'

Brexit Secretary David Davis said on Wednesday that the United Kingdom should have a transitional deal with the European Union in place "before the end of March".

Agence France-Presse reported that the deal will set out how the UK and the EU will work together after Britain leaves the bloc in March 2019. The deal will last until 2020 or 2021.

Britain has already said it wants to abide by the EU's rules for two years after it leaves the union, to make the transition orderly, and MPs recently approved copying four decades of EU laws into British statute books, a decision that still needs approval from the House of Lords.