Will the Brexit divorce bill cost the UK €60 billion?
Feb 28, 2017 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
A wide range of figures are flying around regarding how much the UKs divorce settlement from the EU will cost. This is nothing to do with retaining market access or agreeing to a trade deal its the bill that the EU may...
The shape of Brexit is probably already written in a 60-year-old document
Feb 28, 2017 06:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
For the United Kingdom, March 2017 represents a significant turning point. Prime Minister Theresa May plans to trigger Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and the Brexit clock will start ticking. But March 2017 also...
Briferendum Aftermath Series: Tony Blair and Boris Johnson fight over second referendum
Feb 17, 2017 12:15 pm UTC| Commentary
Tony Blair, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 has called to rise against the Brexit and said he would be launching a campaign to change peoples minds on that issue. In June last year, 51.9...
Inside the British Asian Brexit vote – and why it contains a few surprises
Feb 17, 2017 00:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Months on from the EU referendum, our understanding of the Leave vote is still patchy in certain areas. Weve learnt that older people and the less affluent were more likely to choose Brexit, but we know less about how the...
The civil service faces a great British Brexit challenge
Feb 16, 2017 07:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The UK Civil Service seems to be in poor shape. It has been eroded since the Fulton Report half a century ago, which criticised the skills and the professionalism of civil servants. Civil service numbers have also been...
Briferendum Aftermath Series: No bilateral deals for UK in EU
Feb 14, 2017 09:34 am UTC| Commentary
There will be no cherry picking for Britain in the post-Brexit negotiations with the European Union and there will be no separate bilateral trade deal between a member state and the United Kingdom. These are the strict...
Article 50 vote shows Brexit is about politics, not Britain's future
Feb 09, 2017 13:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The vote in the House of Commons on whether the British government can trigger Article 50 has been revealing. It showed just how much the current Brexit debate is cast not by the economic and international interests of the...
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