GDP when viewed per capita is a much more significant figure.

GDP per capita 2015 Switzerland: $58,551.00 USD

GDP per capita 2015 Britain: $41,159.00 USD

"The usual stuff" your quote ....happens to require EU business to conform to EU specific regulations based on my research. Your - "without that (heavy EU regulations) people die" might be true - but, respectfully sounds like a industry specific scare tactic. It seems to me the industry - except the illegal drug business - will regulate itself if it's product or services are killing people. Unless, of course you are speaking of the military industrial complex?

Swizerland does have the highest quality of life in the world.... five times the exports of Britain, twice the GDP per capita of Britain - well almost ... I concede:
Switzerland's GDP per capita of $58,551.00 is not twice that of Britain's GDP per capita of $41,159.00. But it is much greater which is the point.

The speaker was referring to UK statistics although the discussion was generally about Britain. Correct me if you can.

UPDATE: I just found more recent stats: Switzerland per capita GDP $85,616.6 USD and UK per capita GDP $46,297.0
the speaker was very close to being correct Switzerland's per capita GDP is "twice that of Britain" very close to twice that of Britain/UK. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD

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