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As said at the front, I helped with the legal aspects of this report.
Like all the choices that the U.K. has in front of it, an EEA/EFTA type arrangement involves trade-offs and political judgment about priorities. Views may fairly differ (and differ profoundly) about those.
Moreover, any way forward is going to be a second- or third- best option for many. It’s no use refusing to look at your second choice option because it’s not your first.
And no option is going to be anything like perfect or avoid serious political or economic difficulties. Anyone who pretends otherwise is a knave or a fool.
But (though I didn’t directly have a hand in the drafting of the report) I think it does a good job of fairly and honestly presenting the case for this way forward, and I’m happy to have helped with it.
(PS as those following me may have picked up, the Telegraph article heralding this paper contained an error about State aid: the paper, however, gets it right.)
