All posts tagged "Department for Exiting the EU"
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‘An iconoclastic government’: former DEXEU chief Philip Rycroft on threats to the UK and its democracy
Philip Rycroft ran both the UK’s Brexit department, and Whitehall’s relations with the devolved governments. Now the former permanent secretary is speaking out: the Johnson government, he says, is ‘challenging
- Posted October 16, 2020
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Clare Moriarty and David Sterling recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Two recently-retired UK civil service chiefs, Clare Moriarty and David Sterling, have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Moriarty – who’s quoted in GGF’s latest Brexit analysis – left
- Posted October 12, 2020
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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
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Rebalancing the UK: ‘Levelling Up’ in the era of COVID-19
With Boris Johnson’s electoral fortunes resting on ‘Levelling Up’ the North and Midlands, the agenda still has legs. At a GGF webinar, panellists including a former HMT special adviser, DEXEU
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Civil servants caught in crossfire as Tories battle over Brexit
A minister in the UK’s Brexit department has condemned an official economic forecast produced in part by his own civil servants as “an attempt to undermine our exit from the
- Posted January 30, 2018