Dominic Raab: Britain will refuse to pay £39 billion divorce bill to Brussels if the EU fails to agree trade deal

21 July 2018

Dominic Raab told The Sunday Telegraph that he would make the vast payment formally conditional on the EU “fulfilling its side of the bargain”.

The promise will be welcomed by leading Brexiteers after the Government said in May that there were no plans for a legally enforceable link between the bill and a future trading relationship.

Amid a breakdown of trust with No 10, pro-Brexit MPs had threatened to force an amendment into the Government’s Implementation Bill in the autumn [...]

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