Supporters and opponents of Brexit have reacted angrily to reports that the UK will pay up to 55 billion euros ($63 billion) to exit the European Union, putting pressure on British negotiators before key talks.
Brexit negotiators from London and Brussels agreed that Britain will pay between 45 and 55 billion euros, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
But the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier refused to confirm any reports, calling them “rumors.”
The so-called EU Divorce bill, or Brexit financial settlement, is the sum of money demanded by the EU from the UK as it leaves the bloc.
Brexit supporters reacted with anger to the reports, with prominent eurosceptic Nigel Farage calling the reported figure “utterly unacceptable.”
“For a sum of this magnitude to be agreed in return for nothing more than a promise of a decent settlement on trade represents a complete and total sellout,” he wrote in The Daily…