UK confident of a good Brexit deal, health minister says

Britain's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock appears on the BBC's Marr Show, in London, Britain, October 14, 2018. Jeff Overs/BBC/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health minister said on Monday he was confident that the United Kingdom will get a good deal with the European Union before it leaves the bloc next March.

"I am confident that we will get a good deal in the Brexit negotiations," Health Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC radio. "The EU always negotiates right down to the last moment, I am confident that we will get a good deal."

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Michael Holden)