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The politics of personalities: how three bad behaviours shaped Brexit
Analysis: Politics may be fought in the language of principles and philosophies, but personality often decides the victor. Digging through a new set of interviews on Britain’s Brexit journey, Matt
- Posted April 6, 2021
Secret story: inside the delivery suite with the reluctant midwives of Brexit
In-depth interviews with Conservative special advisers and ministers reveal the moments that shaped Britain’s exit from the EU. Matt Ross explores the strategic errors and political calculations that led two
- Posted March 25, 2021
Future Brexit measures are storing up disruption, think tank warns
The British government must prepare for future disruption that is being “stored up” over a range of Brexit measures that are still to come into force, a think tank has
- Posted March 25, 2021
How the Tories’ new direction left government directionless, and other Brexit stories
Brexiteers have long accused civil servants of hampering the UK’s exit from the EU. But new interviews with leading Tory ministers and advisers paint a very different picture – one
- Posted March 8, 2021
Black comedy of errors: how the UK accidentally left the Single Market, and other Brexit stories
Newly published interviews with key figures involved in Brexit reveal how a lack of expertise led to major mistakes – and suggest that the UK government deliberately built an inexperienced
- Posted February 16, 2021
Overcoming uncertainty: former environment and Brexit chief Clare Moriarty
Following the 2016 referendum, Clare Moriarty ran the environment department then the UK’s EU exit operations. She tells Matt Ross how a focus on human nature helped her to lead
- Posted November 4, 2020
Construction or demolition? Explaining Boris’s new Brexit battle
UK PM Boris Johnson had been wildly happy about his new EU exit deal; then he introduced a law undermining both it, and the last round of trade negotiations. Speaking
- Posted October 6, 2020
UK government legal chief quits over Brexit row
The head of the UK government’s legal department has resigned over prime minister Boris Johnson’s attempt to override parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement relating to Northern Ireland. Sir Jonathan
- Posted September 9, 2020
Doubts over IT system readiness prompts fresh concerns over Brexit border chaos
UK civil servants are working to avert major border chaos when the post-Brexit transition period ends on 31 December, according to a leaked memo that warns of “critical gaps” in
- Posted September 7, 2020
COVID-19 and Brexit driving need for major civil service reform, says UK Cabinet Office perm sec
The combination of the pandemic, Brexit, ‘levelling up’, ‘net zero’ and other pressing agendas are driving a need for big reforms in the UK civil service, Cabinet Office permanent secretary
- Posted July 15, 2020
