Switzerland’s government developed a Brexit strategy very early on (called “Mind the Gap”) and an agreement - similar to, and in some ways better than, the EU Withdrawal Agreement - was signed in February 2019. Like the UK, Switzerland has some strong anti-immigration sentiment, not least from the point of view of wage dumping, but has just voted overwhelmingly *not* to scrap freedom of movement with the EU, which would also have terminated all six of the remaining bilateral agreements that came into force in 2002 (Bilateral Agreements I ), under a guillotine clause. Both Switzerland and the UK are very keen to replicate existing arrangements as far as possible, with the exception of free movement of people.
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