All posts tagged "Philip Rycroft"

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  ‘Mature, sensible diplomacy’: UK and EU agree new trade agreement for Northern Ireland in Brexit breakthrough

  The UK and the European Union have agreed a new deal over post-Brexit trading agreements for Northern Ireland, after months of negotiations over a highly contentious protocol agreed in 2019.

  • Posted February 28, 2023
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  UK civil service ‘should be given stewardship role amid upheaval’ – as PM Sunak reorganises government

  The UK government has been urged to strengthen the role of civil servants as stewards of government capability and advice in order to maintain delivery through periods of uncertainty. The

  • Posted February 7, 2023
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  Select IT staff exempt from Canadian government return-to-office mandate; US revitalises agency internship programmes: workforce & management news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canadian federal government exempts some IT workers from return-to-office rules The Canadian federal government

  • Posted January 26, 2023
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  Former government department chiefs blast ‘homogeneity of thought’ in UK civil service

  Two former UK government department bosses have called for civil service reform but say its failures are systemically rooted and unlikely to change under the current educational, cultural and corporate

  • Posted January 24, 2023
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  ‘These cuts will have to include frontline roles’: can the UK government reach its target to cull 91,000 civil service jobs?

  In response to the UK government’s plan to cut 91,000 jobs, Global Government Forum brought together experts to discuss how government will identify the reductions, whether they can be achieved,

  • Posted June 20, 2022
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  Moving mindsets and offices: how to successfully relocate civil servants

  The UK government has pledged to move 22,000 civil service jobs out of London by 2030 as part of its ‘levelling up’ agenda. At a recent webinar, experts discussed the

  • Posted March 29, 2021
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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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  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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