Prime minister Rishi Sunak has ruled out any Swiss-style deal to remove trade barriers with the EU, as Eurosceptic Tory MPs claimed that chancellor Jeremy Hunt was trying to soften Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.
Sunak insisted at the CBI conference in Birmingham that Johnson’s “bare bones” Brexit deal — the Trade and Cooperation Agreement — could “deliver enormous benefits for the country”.
But some Conservative MPs believe that Hunt, who backed Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum and wants to remove the “vast majority” of trade barriers between the UK and EU, is pushing for a softer form of Brexit.
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