Theresa May's Tories Lash Out at EU's $63 Billion Brexit Bill
- Former cabinet minister says this figure is a nonsense’
- Iain Duncan Smith says U.K. ‘bought the damned restaurant’
U.K. Brexit Bill Talk Sparks Political War of Words
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U.K. lawmakers in Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative party hit back at claims from Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern that Britain will be charged 60 billion euros ($63 billion) to leave the European Union as tensions surge ahead of Brexit talks.
In a Bloomberg interview on Thursday, Kern became the first EU leader to put a value on the size of the U.K.’s Brexit bill. While May’s office was muted in its public comments, Kern’s warning that there would be “no free lunch” for the U.K. sparked a furious response from senior members of Parliament.