William Hague's Telegraph article, quoted in today's guardian.

"However, Weber?s optimistic comments about the Brexit financial settlement chimed with recent arguments by senior Tories such as William Hague, who wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Monday that ?if we want Brexit to be a success, we must pay them?.

?The Brexit talks are now quite clearly coming to such a crunch, where the UK has to decide whether a major and unpalatable concession is worth making in order to secure a large number of highly desirable objectives,? wrote Hague. ?Anyone who thinks there has ever been a chance of a free trade deal with the EU without doing this has been kidding themselves.?

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Anyone here prepared to admit they have been kidding themselves?