CAN those on the remain side of the Brexit argument please stop making the totally wrong claim that to have a trade deal with the European Union we must accept freedom of movement.
The EU has over 100 trade agreements.
Of these, it is only the four EFTA countries - Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway whose specific and particular trade agreement requires “freedom of movement”.
Of these four, Liechtenstein has a derogation and Switzerland voted against “freedom of movement” in a referendum in 2014.
So that leaves just two countries - Norway and Iceland - who have granted “freedom of movement” in return for a trade agreement with the EU.
None of the EU's other trade agreements have freedom of movement.
Time to put a stop to this totally false claim.
William Dartmouth UKIP MEP South West and Gibraltar
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