The Norway model is still going after all this time -- or is it a stunt by Johnson supporters? The Graun today:
Tory MP sparks Brexiter backlash with call to rejoin EU single market
Boris Johnson allies seize on Tobias Ellwood’s comments to say Brexit would not be safe with rebel Tories
He argued that exports to Europe had shrunk by £20bn, with fishers and farmers facing particular hardship, and the issue of the Northern Ireland protocol remained unresolved. “All these challenges would disappear if we dare to advance our Brexit model by rejoining the EU single market (the Norway model),”
His argument, however, was used by Johnson’s allies to suggest the attempt to force a confidence vote next week was evidence of an anti-Brexit bias.
David Frost, the UK’s chief negotiator during the divorce talks, said Ellwood’s intervention “shows Brexit really is not safe in his hands or his allies’”....A senior MP said Ellwood had “let the cat out of the bag”, adding: “After all the pain we went through on Brexit, he’s still hell bent on trying to drag us back into the EU, and he’s willing to sacrifice the prime minister who delivered Brexit to get there.”
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