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sources were quoted putting the sum at between €30-40 billion.

The comments strike a very different tone to the one used by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson before the parliamentary recess, in which he told EU leaders they could “go whistle” if they wanted an “exorbitant” payment from the UK. But the figure was dismissed as “highly speculative and wrong” by a Downing Street official.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said the contradictory

‘Whatever amount the government proposes, their Brexit supporters won’t understand why it is being paid when their campaign promised otherwise’

SIR VINCE CABLE