The Irish border is one of the main barriers to trade negotiations CHARLES MCQUILLAN/GETTY IMAGESBritain’s offer to settle the Brexit divorce bill will “get the ship off the rocks”, Boris Johnson has said. The government has bowed to demands from Brussels to meet its long-term financial liabilities to the bloc. The likely cost of between €40 billion and €50 billion in total, will not be settled as a lump sump but will be spread over a period of up to four decades. Mr Johnson said today that he hopes Britain’s offer will persuade the EU to agree to move on to trade and transition talks at next month’s European Council summit. “We’re hoping very much that the offer the prime minister is able to make at that council will be one that guarantees sufficient progress,” the foreign secretary told…

Source: The Times November 29, 2017 12:00 UTC