fears over reports of Swiss-style EU deal

There's no point in continuing to write Bollocks gnome. Switzerland trades as a "third party country" just like we do. All their goods are subject to the same checks as ours. It's just that the EU has no reason to punish Switzerland - they haven't left the EU.

Switzerland pays for the privilege and follows the ECJ in some cases.

Stop tailoring facts to suit your delusions, Wolf.  It does not work.  It will never work.  You only end up embarrassing yourself -- every single time.

Your positioning is completely the wrong way around.  Switzerland's bespoke agreements do not put them outside the Single Market.  On the contrary, Switzerland's bespoke agreements put them inside the Single Market.  

Here's the reality:  A country can be in the SM via EU membership or bilateral agreements.  Spain is in it via its EU membership.  Switzerland is in it via its bilateral agreements.  Bilateral agreements can be bespoke or standard.  Switzerland managed to negotiate bespoke agreements.  Those bespoke agreements allow it to be in the Single Market partially.  Partially, hence, not all goods are included; freedom of movement of people is restricted; a reduced contribution to EU budget and projects; not all EU laws are adopted.

The EU dislike the Swiss model and wants to change it from bespoke to standard -- because that model seems to favour Switzerland more than the EU.  The Swiss out negotiated, out witted the EU back in the 90s.  So, fat chance the EU will offer the UK the same model.

In any case, the reality is Switzerland is part of the Single Market.  The EU says so.  Switzerland says so.  Nobody denies it.  Everybody knows it.  Everybody accepts it.  Except you. 

If you're not an EU country and you want to be in the Single Market -- whether full or partial -- you need to have bilateral deals with the EU.  That is the only way you can gain entry into the Single Market.  That's how Switzerland did it.  And don't start with this stupid idea of yours that Switzerland is not in the Single Market.  It is in the Single Market.  End of.

The trouble with you is that you are so limited, you don't realise it.  You know very little but you have convinced yourself that what little you know is enough.  Well, it is isn't.  Sorry.  I mean, you insist that Switzerland is not in the Single Market.  But according to the EU website itself, it is in the Single Market.  Yet you seriously expect people to believe you rather than what the EU and Switzerland say.  

The claim that Switzerland "is in a bilateral arrangement and not in the Single Market" is nonsense.  Sorry.

First, Switzerland has more than one bilateral arrangement. Second, every bilateral arrangement's one aim and purpose is for Switzerland to gain sectoral entry into the Single Market without joining the European Union and for the European Union to give Switzerland sectoral entry into its Single Market.

The EU Single Market itself is an entity. It is not an agreement. You try to gain entry into the Single Market by means of agreements if you are not an EU member country.  And that's what Switzerland has done.  Here, from a quick google search:

The European single market, internal market or common market is a single market comprising the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) as well as – with certain exceptions – Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway through the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and Switzerland through sectoral treaties.