The future free trade agreement between the European Union and Britain will have to be along the same lines as the one the EU has with Canada, the EU's chief Brexit negotiation Michel Barnier said on Friday.

Barnier said that there was no other option, given Britain's terms for a future relationship with the EU, after it leaves the bloc in 2019. Britain does not want to be part of the EU's single market, customs union or be subject to rulings by the European Court of Justice.

"If you take that - what are you left with? Just one thing: a free trade agreement on the Canadian model," Barnier told a news conference.

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