Here’s why Tories are raging again over Brexit – they really don’t trust Rishi Sunak

‘Rishi Sunak’s impeccable Brexiteer bona fides seem to count little in some sections of the party.’ Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

It is objectively quite absurd for the Conservatives to have spent the weekend having a row over whether or not the United Kingdom is moving towards a “Swiss-style” relationship with the European Union.

For starters, Brussels doesn’t particularly like the morass of bilateral treaties it has with Berne and there is no evidence that a similar arrangement would be made available to London even if we wanted one, which the government insists it does not.