The UK's tentative roadmap out of Europe

John Springford, the director of research at the London-based Centre for European Reform, told me Britain’s silence on the divorce bill issue has more to do with its unpopularity at home than negotiating tactics. “The British public and [those to] the right of the Conservative party do not want to pay billions of billions of pounds to the EU,” he said, adding: “The more specific the number, the more difficult the political hit that Theresa May and her government will take.”