All posts tagged "House of Commons"

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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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  UK Parliament wins right to avert No Deal on Brexit

  The UK’s House of Commons agreed on Wednesday night that if Parliament rejects both PM Theresa May’s planned Brexit deal and the prospect of a ‘No Deal’ exit, MPs will

  • Posted February 27, 2019
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  Robbins remains chief civil servant in UK Brexit team

  The civil servant leading the UK negotiation team has survived sustained pressure from Brexit-supporting politicians, who believed they had been promised that he would be replaced. Hard line MPs in

  • Posted February 5, 2019
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  IT collapse creates chaos in English courts

  Major IT network issues caused huge disruption across courts in England last week as computers and phone lines went down, leaving lawyers and judges unable to work and causing cases

  • Posted January 27, 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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