Outrage As EU Demands £2bn More In Brexit Split

EU demands for an extra £2billion in the Brexit divorce settlement are “ridiculous” and Britain must refuse to pay, Tory MPs said yesterday.

- Sam Lister and Joe Barnes

Accounts published in Brussels put the new bill at £40.8billion instead of the maximum £39billion expected.

Downing Street rejected the figure, saying the Government will publish its own total soon.

Brexiteer Tory MP Peter Bone said it was “completely absurd” that after paying in more than the country took out for its entire membership of the bloc that Brussels claims the final bill is even higher than expected.

Reckoning

He said: “The EU should be paying us money. We were a net contributor throughout our period within the EU.

“The idea that when we have left the club we need to pay them even more money is completely ridiculous.

“The EU is just being its normal unreasonable self.”

Former Brexit minister David Jones said Brussels must justify the new bill.

“One thing is certain, we shouldn’t be paying them a cent more than they are entitled to. We always knew there would be a financial reckoning and we have always understood that we might have to pay them some money.