All posts tagged "Theresa May"

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  Brexit battle scars: in conversation with Theresa May’s chief of staff

  As senior aide to Theresa May, Gavin Barwell was in a unique position to guide the prime minister as she tried to navigate the UK’s turbulent split from the EU.

  • Posted November 7, 2021
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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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  Secret story: inside the delivery suite with the reluctant midwives of Brexit

  In-depth interviews with Conservative special advisers and ministers reveal the moments that shaped Britain’s exit from the EU. Matt Ross explores the strategic errors and political calculations that led two

  • Posted March 25, 2021
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  How the Tories’ new direction left government directionless, and other Brexit stories

  Brexiteers have long accused civil servants of hampering the UK’s exit from the EU. But new interviews with leading Tory ministers and advisers paint a very different picture – one

  • Posted March 8, 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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  ‘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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  Former UK diplomatic chief warns of declining influence overseas

  The UK’s global influence is in decline, the former head of the country’s foreign office has argued – with Brexit and an over-controlling Number 10 at the heart of the

  • Posted September 14, 2020
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  May and Johnson failed to protect civil servants from Brexit-related attacks, says think tank

  UK PMs Theresa May and Boris Johnson failed to defend civil servants whose impartiality was called into question during the Brexit upheaval of the last four years, an investigation has

  • Posted May 18, 2020
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  Boris Johnson rose to power thanks to Theresa May’s Brexit errors; now he’s replicating them

  Boris Johnson became the UK’s prime minister by attacking Theresa May’s approach to Brexit. But Johnson has already made exactly the same mistakes as his predecessor – so if he

  • Posted November 29, 2019
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