Data from the Office for Budget Responsibility show the Brexit bonus from cancelled payments to Brussels has already been pencilled into its forecasts.
A net saving of £32billion could be made in the first three years after Britain’s scheduled departure in 2019. Senior MPs yesterday united in a call for the dividend to be spent on the NHS and other key priorities at home.
The huge windfall was identified by the Eurosceptic pressure group Change Britain in financial tables on the website of the Whitehall financial watchdog, published alongside Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement on the economy earlier this week. Express.