UK Brexit Minister David Davis has said that Britain will not pay £40 to the European Union as it leaves the bloc.
According to The Times, a “Brussels source” said Saturday that Britain was prepared to pay such an amount, however, Davis told BBC television that “they sort of made that up.”
“I’m not going to do an actual number on air, it would be ridiculous to do that, but we have a fairly clear idea where we’re going on this,” he said.
EU claims for Britain to contribute to the bloc’s future pension pot, he said, are “debatable to say the least.”
“The last time we went through line by line and challenged quite a lot of the legal basis of these things and we’ll continue to do that.”
According to an August report by the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, the UK expressed its willingness to pay up to 40 billion euros to the bloc as it wanted considerable progress on settling Britain’s liabilities before Brexit talks resumed.
The report added…