SIR – The EU’s Brexit negotiators seem to be dragging out the process. They are still not prepared to discuss trade terms after the transition period.
However, we are told that both sides have signed up to the principle that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. Payment into the EU budget beyond March 2019, when we become a sovereign nation, is surely covered by that principle.
I assume that even Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, will not make these payments until everything else is agreed. If the pundits are right and negotiations go into the transition period or beyond, the EU will have to manage without our contribution in that period. Does the EU know this?
Robert Mansfield
Bramhope,...