Britain's Gove says door 'ajar' on EU trade talks

The bloc had squandered some of the progress made in negotiations because it had not been willing to intensify talks or produce detailed legal texts, Gove said.

"We hope that the EU will change their position; we're certainly not saying if they do change their position that we can't talk to them," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday.

The latest talks broke down on Thursday (October 15) when the European Union said Britain needed to give ground.