One senior diplomat said: “The divorce bill should be fine now. As the UK will continue to pay until all recipients of pensions have died, the final sum is unknown. It has long been expected that the final sum would land at between £40bn and £48bn. Priti Patel, who was recently forced to resign as international development secretary, said this week that she would have told Brussels to “sod off” over its divorce bill demands. Labour MP Chuka Umunna said Johnson and Gove promised there would not be a big divorce bill to pay.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2017 19:55 UTC