The EU is preparing to charge Britain billions of pounds and impose a number of other punitive conditions as its price for agreeing a Brexit delay if Theresa May is forced to ask for an extension this week.
Member states are “hardening” their attitudes towards a delay and will demand “legal and financial conditions” including a multi-billion pound increase to the £39 billion ($71 billion) divorce payment, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
Britain would be expected to pay another £13.5 billion per year, with a delay of even three months adding billions to the bill.
With no signs of a breakthrough in the negotiations, Parliament is expected to reject the deal for a second time on Tuesday, before voting later in the week to extend Article 50.