Britain confident of making progress in Brexit talks by October

Britain is confident it will make "sufficient progress" in negotiations with the European Union by October to move on to the next phase of the talks and discuss future ties with the bloc, the government said on Thursday.After a slow start to negotiations to unravel more than 40 years of union, Prime Minister Theresa May's government is keen for the discussion to move beyond the EU's focus on a divorce settlement to consider how a new relationship could work.Last month, the EU's top Brexit negoti