All posts tagged "EU Referendum"
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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
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Why we get it wrong: former UK Treasury chief on the dangerous power of economic orthodoxies
Reviewing a century of economic crises, former HMT permanent secretary Nick Macpherson sees a common thread: having bought into an economic model, policymakers cling to it long after the world
- Posted October 18, 2019
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For Tory realists, a Brexit fantasy is their only hope
Having spent three years pursuing their promised Brexit, the Tories are set to double down – electing a leader they know is bound to fail. But as Matt Ross explains,
- Posted June 20, 2019
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Analysis: The UK’s black comedy of errors
Conventional wisdom holds that the House of Commons must reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal. But current UK politics is defined by miscalculations and fear, not logic and principle; Matt Ross
- Posted November 19, 2018
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UK Parliament can safely block Brexit deal, says former deputy PM
Britain’s Brexiteers argue that a parliamentary vote against the Brexit settlement currently under negotiation would lead to a chaotic ‘no-deal’ exit from the EU. But the UK’s former deputy prime
- Posted April 27, 2018
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What Brexit has meant for the UK civil service so far?
While Britain’s vote to leave the EU has had no immediate impact on Europeans living in the UK or Britons living in other EU nations, the referendum result has led
- Posted July 27, 2016
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Finding the exit: the future of UK-EU relations
What happens when an unknown prime minister ventures into the unknown? Matt Ross explores the options facing Britain’s new PM as she contemplates the unprecedented task of extracting an EU
- Posted July 21, 2016
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Brexit minister Oliver Letwin leaves government after being branded ‘completely unsuitable’ for the job
Oliver Letwin, the minister in charge of the UK government’s Brexit Unit who was branded as “completely unsuitable” for the job by former cabinet secretary Andrew Turnbull, has left the government.
- Posted July 14, 2016
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Brexit: UK government should try to win back officials from European Commission by offering ‘more than competitive pay’, committee says
Britain’s government should make “particularly strenuous efforts” to win back more than 1,000 UK nationals working for the European Commission by offering “more than competitive pay” to help with Brexit
- Posted July 13, 2016
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Britain turns to private sector, foreign governments and retired officials for help with Brexit talks
Britain is turning to foreign governments, the private sector and former civil servants to help it ramp up its capacity to conduct complex trade negotiations following Britain’s decision to leave
- Posted July 5, 2016










