Britain will "fight back" if the EU will not strike an acceptable deal on Brexit, finance minister Philip Hammond said Sunday. He said Britain would "do whatever we need to do" to be competitive if the country left the European Union without concluding a trade agreement. "If there is anybody in the European Union who thinks that if we don't do a deal with the European Union, if we don't continue to work closely together, Britain will simply slink off as a wounded animal, that is not going to happen," he told BBC television. "British people have a great fighting spirit and we will fight back. We will forge new trade ... (full story)