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		</div><p>Negotiations to leave the European Union are likely to descend into &#8220;name-calling&#8221; and &#8220;fist-fighting&#8221; before any agreement can be found, the UK&#8217;s former ambassador to the EU has warned.</p>
<p>Ivan Rogers, who quit in January after telling British Prime Minister Theresa May that Brussels diplomats thought it might take 10 years to reach a deal, said there was a &#8220;humongous&#8221; amount of work to do in what would probably be the country&#8217;s largest ever negotiation.</p>
<p>Mr Rogers told the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee that he did not leak his advice to Mrs May, which sensationally became public ahead of a key European Council summit in December.</p>
<p>&#8220;I never leak, I never have, I never would,&#8221; said the diplomat. &#8220;I can categorically deny and rebut that.&#8221;<br />
Mr Rogers denied that he had ever said that he personally believed a post-Brexit trade deal would take 10 years.</p>
<p>But he said his private memo to Mrs May detailed the &#8220;street wisdom among the senior players&#8221; in Brussels and EU capitals, who thought trade negotiations would not start until late 2017 at the earliest and would not be concluded and ratified until the &#8220;early-mid 2020s&#8221;.</p>
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