UK accepts it will have to pay Brexit bill

We will work with EU to determine a fair settlement of the UK's rights & obligations: Brexit Secy

The UK acknowledged for the first time in writing that it will have to pay money to the European Union when it withdraws from the bloc, seeking to damp down a row over the country’s so-called Brexit bill.

“We will work with the EU to determine a fair settlement of the UK’s rights and obligations as a departing member state,” Brexit Secretary David Davis said in a statement to Parliament that referred explicitly to the “financial settlement” with the EU. “The government recognises that the UK has obligations to the EU, and the EU obligations to the UK, that will