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let’s pay the eU £20bn to break brexit deadlock, pleads rees-mogg

BRITAIN should offer a one-off £20billion payment to end the Brexit impasse, Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg urged yesterday.

He suggested offering the deal to Brussels to “make our departure as amicable as possible”.

Previously critical of the £39billion divorce bill the UK is set to pay the EU, Mr Rees-Mogg wrote in a Sunday newspaper article: “It is time for convinced Brexiteers like me to compromise. So, at this late hour in the negotiations, we would like to make a new, generous offer to break the deadlock, to achieve a ‘No Deal Plus’. It would cost us money but it would finally dispel the ‘crash out’ Project Fear nightmare scenarios.”

He added: “We should offer Brussels £20billion to make our departure as amicable as possible.

“Under it, we would leave on schedule on March 29.

“However, for a 21-month transition period until the end of 2020, both sides would maintain a standstill with zero tariffs on either’s goods and no additional barriers.”

Mr Rees-Mogg, who is chairman of the European Research Group of MPs, also hit out at Theresa May.

“As the PM stubbornly refuses to accept the comprehensive free trade deal offered by the EU, colloquially known as ‘super Canada’, the final hope must be that when she said no deal is better than a bad deal, she actually meant it,” he said.