<span style="color: #222222;">UK Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington, a  close ally of Prime Minister Theresa May, has said that Britain and the European Union are almost within touching distance of a Brexit deal.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Lidington said this to BBC after a cabinet meet. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">May's Cabinet met today for an on the talks, with the Prime Minister under pressure from pro-Brexit ministers not to make further concessions to the EU. May also faces growing opposition from pro-EU lawmakers, who say her proposed Brexit deal is worse than the status quo and the British public should get a new vote on whether to leave or to stay. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Britain wants to seal a deal urgently that Parliament has time to vote on it before the UK leaves the bloc on March 29. The European Parliament also has to approve any agreement.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, the European Union has published contingency plans for a "no-deal" Brexit, piling pressure on London.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In one measure, Brussels said it will offer visa-free travel within the bloc to Britons, but warned this was entirely conditional on the UK also granting reciprocal and non-discriminatory visa-free travel to EU citizens travelling to the UK. </span><br />''