Britain may be set for a Swiss-style relationship with the European Union, as senior Government figures look to put a plan in motion.

The idea is to create closer economic ties with the bloc.

Senior Government sources feel frictionless trade with the EU requires a Swiss-style relationship, in a move that may take place over the next decade.

Hell to next election ... Britain and its economy needs to survive.

Liz Truss: "Lady is not for turning ..." 😂

"However, the model also involves more liberal EU migration, and payments to the EU budget, with the bloc in recent years also pushing for the European Court of Justice to have greater oversight in the relationship."[_link]

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) November 19, 2022

Living standard to drop 7%

I'm going to give you nearly all of politics for the next 2 years in two tweets:

(1) OBR- Real household disposable income per person, a measure of living standards, is set to fall 4.3% in 2022-23 the largest fall since ONS records began in 1956-57.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 17, 2022

The narrative around Brexit among its adherents is becoming so much like that of western communists half a century ago: it's the right system, it just hasn't been implemented properly [_link]

— Ciaran Martin (@ciaranmartinoxf) November 19, 2022

No 10 seeks to quell hardline Brexiters’ fears over reports of Swiss-style EU deal | The Guardian |

Minister rubbishes reports that senior government figures were revisiting trading arrangement offered by EU last year

Downing Street has sought to quell a backlash among hardline Brexiters after it was claimed the UK wanted to pursue closer ties with the European Union by adopting a Swiss-style relationship.

The suggestion was rubbished by a government spokesperson as well as a former Brexit secretary, who claimed doing so would renege on the freedoms gained in the aftermath of the 2016 referendum.

One senior Conservative said pushing for a Swiss-style deal amounted to “resurrecting the corpse” of Theresa May’s ill-fated Brexit deal, which was presented to cabinet ministers at Chequers but abandoned in the face of a cabinet rebellion.

There has been renewed focus on the effects of Brexit given that the UK is the only G7 country still lagging behind pre-pandemic growth levels, and the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has suggested that removing trade barriers would boost growth.

New Rejected policy brief ’Brexiting Swiss-style: The best possible UK-EU trade deal' | CER.EU - 2017 |