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FactCheck: can we avoid paying the £39 billion Brexit divorce bill?
It’s hard to see how we could get out of paying up – even if there’s no deal.
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Irish want no hard border pledge in writing
The decision to double the amount Britain pays for the divorce bill now leaves the issue of the Irish border as the last remaining stumbling block preventing the EU moving on to Brexit trade talks. But those talks were threatened by the Irish government’s insistence that Britain needed to confirm in writing that there wouldn’t…
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UK could pay £50bn Brexit divorce bill
Britain’s Brexit divorce bill could be almost £50bn. Theresa May insisted today that negotiations are still going on, but it looks like that is what Britain could promise to pay the EU in order to move the talks on to the crucial question of future trading arrangements. The pressure is on for a deal to be…