£39BN BILL LOOKS EYE-WATERING ... BUT IT’S NO MORE THAN UK SPENDS IN JUST 18 DAYS

THE £ 39billion Brexit divorce bill is £6billion less than the taxpayers’ bailout of RBS in 2008, after the bank was almost ruined by former chief executive Fred ‘The Shred’ Goodwin. Here are a few comparisons that put the cost of quitting the EU into perspective:

Less than the £45billion that taxpayers stumped up to rescue Royal Bank of Scotland from collapse in 2008

At least £2billion less than the £41.4billion we would pay Brussels for staying in the European Union from 2019 to 2022

Equal to 18 days of Government spending – which is expected to be £795.3 billion this year

What the State earns in just 46 days from income tax and National Insurance receipts

How much the NHS spends every three months from its annual budget of £155billion Less than the £40.9billion in annual interest

payments on Britain’s national debt

Likely to be less than what we spend on foreign aid in the next three years – an amount that hit £13.3 billion in 2016

What consumers spent every 15 weeks on internet shopping last year, out of an annual bill of £133billion

Less than Britain’s total imports of goods in October of £41 billion