LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Britain will leave the European
Union on Oct. 31 if no Brexit deal is reached with the bloc,
housing minister Robert Jenrick said on Thursday.
Jenrick said a Brexit deal could still be done despite
Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party saying it cannot
support current proposals from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and
the European Union.
"As we are negotiating this arrangement in Brussels as we
speak, at the same time we are continuing to take forward at
pace preparations to leave without a deal if necessary on the
31st of October," Jenrick told BBC radio .
The minister said there is not a deadline for publishing the
legal text on a Brexit deal before parliament could vote on it
on Saturday.
"There isn't a deadline, we want to get a deal done, so
we're not going to set ourselves an artificial deadline, we're
not going to compromise the negotiation," he said.
(Reporting by James Davey)