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The truth about the money we give to the EU is not as Boris Johnson tells it.

For starters our contribution per head is less than 11 other countries including Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy and Ireland.

And if you work it out in daily cups of coffee then each Brit pays into the EU budget less than the cost of a quarter of a cup.

You’ll remember the Foreign Secretary’s ridiculous claim on his referendum battlebus that the NHS could have £350million extra a week if we left the EU.

Now brazen Boris says that was an underestimate and we will really save £438million a week after Brexit.

Boris, you’ve bungled your figures.

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Each of us is paying 62p a day, and nearly half of that comes back in grants and rebates anyway.

That compares with Luxembourg folk forking out £1.39 each, the Irish £1.06, the French 88p and Germans 84p. The lowest contribution comes from the Bulgarians at 18p a head.

The European Commission started the coffee comparison with a tweet saying: “For less than one cup of coffee a day every EU citizen benefits from #EUbudget.”

Analysts at PoliticoEurope drew up a Cappuccino Index based on the price of coffee in each of the 28 member states.

By that measure the UK is 19th in the contributions rankings behind Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Cyprus, the Czech Republic and Malta.