How do you lose a few billion quid? Why, send it to Brussels of course.

After news emerged that, out of the £44 billion we've handed the EU since we left - to tie up loose ends as part of our terrible exit deal - only eight per cent of it can be accounted for, it's worth remembering there are many who think it's a neat idea to sidle up to the Eurocrats anyway.

The rest of that vast pot of cash appears to have vanished into the all too familiar fog of Euro-bureaucracy, the world's most expensive black hole. And yet we are still told by the Remainer set that we were mad to leave.

If this were a British government there would be demands for resignations. But in Brussels, a few untraceable billions barely seems to raise an eyebrow. This is the same EU that never once managed to get its own accounts signed off without "irregularities" before we left the bloc.