UK hopes for Swiss-style EU deal are 'wishful thinking' without taking EU laws, insiders warn 🔴 singharj
The official instead said the EU views the briefing about a Swiss model as an attempt to gauge the scale of opposition among Tory Brexiteers – what is known in politics as flying a kite: “It seems more something aimed at the ERG rather than at the EU.”
If there was any doubt within the Government about how the idea of softening Brexit would go down, it was quickly dispelled by an immediate Tory backlash, as ERG members toldIn a sign of how remote they view the possibility of softening Brexit in the current political climate, even the Confederation of British Industry chief said it would rather get the existing arrangements working as well as possible.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak then killed the idea of a Swiss-style Brexit dead as he addressed the CBI’s conference on Monday“Let me be unequivocal about this: Under my leadership, the United Kingdom will not pursue any relationship with Europe that relies on alignment with EU laws,” he said. As it has always said, the EU would be open to improving trade terms in the future, as long as the UK was “reasonable” about the trade-offs.
“We serenely wait for our British friends to come up with proposals and we are happy to explore and discuss anything they might want to propose, as long as it is constructive, sound and reasonable,” the official said.
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