William Dartmouth, Ukip deputy chair and national spokesman on trade, and MEP for the South West of England and Gibraltar, writes:
Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, has written that it is ‘clear what the central trade-off will be: access to the single market versus freedom of movement’. Many commentators and establishment politicians agree with him. This is simply wrong.
In 2015, China, the United States, Russia, Japan, India and Brazil exported goods to the value of €864,855m to the EU. None of these countries have ‘freedom of movement’ with the EU. None of them even have a trade agreement with it.
As a fact, it is only the four countries in the European Free Trade Association – Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway – whose trade agreements require freedom of movement.
Of these, Liechtenstein has a derogation and Switzerland voted against freedom of movement in a referendum.
So that leaves just two countries – Norway and Iceland – that have granted freedom of movement in return for access.





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