May: Divorce bill offer off table without UK agreeing partnership with Brussels
(World News UK)

Theresa May has said Britain´s offer for its divorce bill with the EU will be off the table if the UK does not agree a future partnership with Brussels. The Prime Minister told MPs the offer, which she said was likely to be between £35 billion and £39 billion, had been made `in the context of us agreeing the partnership for the future`. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Government had scraped through the first phase of talks, as he challenged Mrs May to drop plans to write the date of Brexit into the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill. Giving a statement to MPs about progress in the negotiations, the Prime Minister said: `He asked about whether this was conditional on securing a deal. `It...