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The government accidentally promised everyone in the UK 14 weeks of paid holiday today.

The document setting out Britain's priorities and plan for leaving the EU includes a graph that makes it look like Brexit won't be all that bad after all.

The chart, on page 32 of the document, compares the minimum holiday and maternity leave entitlement in the EU and the UK.

Brits are entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid annual leave a year - more than the four weeks set out in EU regulations, which is correctly noted on the following page.

But while the graph correctly shows the four weeks of EU mandated annual leave, it more than doubles the UK figure.

A DExEU spokesperson said: “There was an error in one of the many charts in the paper, where two bar charts were transposed, which has now been corrected."

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Former chancellor George Osborne predicted yesterday there would be "late nights" ahead for those plotting Britain's departure from the EU - and it seems they've hit the ground running.

It's understood the white paper was only delivered to the printers at 4am this morning.

People are, of course, delighted with this unexpected turn of events