All posts tagged "DEXEU"

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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
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  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
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  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
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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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  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
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