EU 'won't get a penny of £39bn divorce bill' if they refuse to cut a deal with Theresa May, Brexit Minister warns

After winning a crunch vote last night, the PM is now set to wrangle with Brussels for changes to the hated Northern Ireland backstop – but faces a huge uphill struggle.

Bosses in the bloc have said time and time again that they can't change the deal.

But this morning Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng insisted that we would hold back the cash we are set to give the bloc if they don't budge soon.

He told the BBC this morning that Brussels would not get a "penny pinch" unless there was "some give" from the EU.

"They want a deal, we want a deal, both sides are going to have to compromise," he added.

"If there is a no deal they won't get a penny pinch from us."

If there's No Deal they won't get a penny pinch from us.

Britain is set to cough up £39billion to the EU to leave the bloc – something which has caused fury among Brexiteers and Leavers alike.

It means we will pay into the EU pot for years to come, and will cover all the bills for things we promised to pay for as a member.

However, we will leave the bloc on March 29 and cease to be a part of club, with no rights at all.

"I think there will be a compromise," Mr Kwarteng insisted this morning, saying he was "very confident that a deal can be reached".

"I don't think it's a unicorn option at all," he said this morning of the new plan to go back to Brussels to demand more.

He said: "There is a message coming out of the EU that we need to do a deal."

Last night MPs told Mrs May they wanted her to go back and change her deal with Brussels in the hope of getting Tories to unite around a deal.

She could fly to Brussels this week for more last-ditch talks.

If she can't get them to budge then the Brexit deadlock continues, and Britain faces leaving without a deal in place at all, or pushing back the deadline to gain more time.



Today the PM will hold talks with Jeremy Corbyn over Brexit, after he repeatedly snubbed her offer for discussions.

The leftie Labour boss had previously shunned her, saying she had to remove the threat of leaving without a deal first.

But after last night and MPs voted against leaving without a deal, the PM knows that the Commons would never back that.

Mr Corbyn will today urge her to go for a customs union with the bloc to break the Brexit deadlock, something which would break her initial Brexit red lines.


 

 

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