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About half of that covers our subscription for the implementation period. £16.4bn (€18.5bn) towards the UK’s contribution to the EU budget to 2020 (after offsetting for the UK rebate); £18.2bn (€20.2bn) towards outstanding commitments for projects that have been signed off but not yet paid for...

It's difficult to imagine our PM running or owning a city firm though. Conflict of interest. Furthermore, whoever is crowned PM will have the unenviable task of regaining tory votes that went to Farage at the next GE.

as candidates go, I reckon BJ fears Michael Gove most. If BJ fails to be shortlisted, who is going to represent the tory hard brexiters?

the last survey shows that tory members who are remainers now down to just 15%.

they won't be able to do that. Parliament will force a vote of no confidence and vote to revoke A50 if that were to happen. The only likely outcome is a fresh GE. The new PM will say that he/she needs a fresh mandate for WTO brexit. That's why all candidates claim they can beat JC.

that depends on your weight. The usual distribution is 30% of your weight goes to the front, 70% to the rear. Front motor wheel loses traction much more easily than rear motor wheel for that reason. Although the weight of the basket at the front helps with traction, I think if you weigh less...

he wants to take 10% of the value of large PLCs and give some of it to the workforce, but keep the attached dividend - that's equivalent to 10% additional tax on the dividend. This comes in after bringing the CT back to previous rate under the last Labour administration. You are talking about a...

in that case, forget the TSDZ2, it uses a torque sensor. You can fit a front kit like my XF07. The BBS01B mid drive kit uses cadence sensor and should be considered because it can climb steeper hills than the XF07. You can mount the throttle on an extension to the handlebars and replace the...

that could have been remainers' slogan against 'take back control''.

JC could have given remainers a referendum. It's now perhaps too late, the debate is so polarised that only leave on WTO is in the running. That may suit JC's idea of state intervention but he won't be PM in his lifetime. If WTO turns out to be as expensive as I expect then it will follow by a...

you can have front motor, rear motor or middle motor. They all give decent range, audax bikes are quite economical on battery. You use typically about 8-10WH per mile on flat roads at around 15mph. A 36V 17AH battery (36V 17.5AH, 630WH) gives about 60-70 mile range on a full charge. The drop...

the problem is all the tory hopefuls reckon they can beat JC in the next GE. Remainers need one of the hopefuls to plead the remain case and cause, not a deal.

You call VFR a politician? No, he is here to wind you up.

he'll sell his company (which owns the BXP) in an IPO to the brexiteers.

the vast majority are totally legal immigrants. Ordinary people may not want more immigrants but businesses do, and government simply reacts to it by issuing more visas. The trend is 11% more visas a year! How are you going to square that circle?

yes, she has been and still is pretty useless and may I add, over promoted. Cameron should have stayed a little longer to lead the internal debate among the tories. He knew how to handle the JRMs and the BJs, as he comes from the same background. TM attended a grammar school, not a private...

are you saying that our border control is not our own?

if they don't have an EU passport, they get stopped at the ports and airports. If they are EU citizens, they would be counted as EU immigrants. Are you saying that most of them ask to be allowed in as refugees? I think the truth is straightforward: businesses need immigrants, if they don't come...

I watched Rory Stewart this morning on BBC News. He didn't answer a couple of times to the question 'what would you do differently?' His reply was 'I will talk to Labour and I have no red lines'. He will benefit from clarity, but I am afraid no red lines is sensible in debates, not enough to win...

are PMs allowed to ride bikes?