London (CNN) Britain is looking more likely than ever to crash out of the European Union without a deal, according to the UK's international trade secretary Liam Fox.

Fox put the chances of failure to reach a deal on Brexit at "60-40," placing blame on the "intransigence" of the European Commission, in an interview published in The Sunday Times newspaper.

His comments come as the deadline looms for Britain to exit the European Union on March 29, and amid growing fears that a divorce deal will not be agreed in time.

The top minister and Brexiteer said he had previously thought the prospect of a no-deal were "50-50" but that had now increased -- largely due to European bureaucrats harboring a "theological obsession" with EU rules, rather than "economic wellbeing."

"I think the intransigence of the commission is pushing us towards no deal," he said in the report.

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