PM to offer EU £9bn Divorce bill
Boris Johnson is expected to tell EU boss Donald Tusk that Britain will only pay a quarter of its so-called Brexit divorce bill if the country leaves without a deal on 31 October.
The prime minister is due to meet the European Council president at the G7 summit in France later today.
It is understood he will tell Mr Tusk that under no deal, the UK would only owe about £9bn of the £39bn liability agreed by former prime minister Theresa May.
The approach is likely to stoke tension with other EU leaders at the meeting in Biarritz.
In June, a source close to French President Emmanuel Macron, who is hosting the G7 summit, said refusing to pay was the "equivalent to a sovereign debt default".
Others argue the UK is legally bound to pay the £39bn sum and warn that reneg...