Brexit: who wants a Swiss-style EU deal and what would it look like?

A pro-EU campaigner joins a march in London last month to demand the UK government reverse Brexit and rejoin the EU. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Brexit is slowly but surely creeping back on to the agenda as the blame game intensifies over Britain’s poor growth and looming recession.

Discussion of the effects of the UK leaving the EU were quickly drowned out in the weeks after 31 January 2020 as the Covid pandemic took hold. Since then, much of MPs’ economic focus has been on the fallout from lockdowns, global supply chain issues and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.