The Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has said that reports Britain is seeking a Swiss-style deal with EU “couldn’t be further from the truth”
Doing the media rounds this morning said that “there’s no question whatsoever” of “reopening the fundamental tenets” of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal and later added that the government has “no intention” of restarting payments to the EU budget
The denials follow yesterday’s report splash in the Sunday Times which suggested “senior government figures” are planning to put Britain on the path towards a “Swiss-style relationship with the European Union.”
The Swiss model would involve more liberal EU migration, payments to the EU budget, and a push for greater oversight from the European Court of Justice
A member of the Tory European Research Group told the i paper, such a move would “undermine the whole point of Brexit and make the UK a vassal of the EU with no say in the rules we were forced to adopt”.
Number 10 sources told The Telegraph that reports they are seeking a Swiss-style deal are “categorically untrue”.
