Brexit

PACAC chair calls for expanded role for Department for International Trade second perm sec Crawford Falconer in Brexit trade talks

Campaign group’s FOI compares Whitehall team with US counterparts at July meeting

The Home Office, environment department and HMRC are among those given new money to fund preparations for Brexit

Former immigration enforcement chief describes scale of Brexit challenge as chancellor pledges 'minimum' customs arrangement by March 2019

Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green and SNP MPs have written to Brexit secretary David Davis

As government struggles to negotiate, legislate and implement Brexit, we need clear accountability. It is rime for DExEU to step up and take charge

Stephen Lovegrove told MPs that nuclear power plant deal with EDF would have collapsed had his department tried to renegotiate terms

Prime minister has confirmed the government is planning for every eventuality, including that no transition agreement is reach by 2019

Appointments watchdog ACOBA approves former PM’s request to work for electronic-payments company

Deputy governor Sam Woods says slow progress in negotiations risks banks triggering contingency plans

Institute for Government argues that European Court of Justice cannot provide a neutral voice

Prof Ian Boyd cancels decision to step down and pledges to stay on for “at least another year”

Recent high-profile staff moves at the Department for Exiting the European Union have hit the headlines. Victoria Taylor, the FDA trade union’s national officer for DExEU and the Department for International Trade explains what is life is like on the inside of one of Whitehall’s most high-profile departments

Chair of welfare review body says model could be applied to contentious government plans to revise European legislation without parliamentary scrutiny

Launch of free trade think tank in the Foreign Office showed "astonishing lack of judgement in using official government buildings", says FDA

DExEU, Cabinet Office, and Defra under fire for refusal to answer information requests

Amid tensions between UK parliaments over EU Withdrawal Bill, incoming DExEU perm sec insists devolution is ‘meat and drink’ to civil servants

IfG urges civil service to ‘get a grip on Brexit workforce strategy’ as FOI request finds high staff turnover in DExEU

Lord Bridges said there’s no time to focus on anything but Brexit-related priorities

Theresa May set to give speech today setting out the government’s offer in the next stage of negotiations

With Brexit negotiations in full swing, the editors of Civil Service World,  PoliticsHome, the Parliament Magazine, Holyrood Magazine, Public Affairs News, Total Politics, and The House have joined forces to discuss the latest political thinking from London, Brussels and Edinburgh.

Committee chair Bernard Jenkin says that Brexit will expose “where understandings are weak and where relationships are strained” in Whitehall

Move of civil service’s chief Brexit negotiator to the Cabinet Office will require new structures to be established with “time at a premium”, says IfG.

Philip Rycroft, the second permanent secretary at DExEU, will take up top post following Robbins's move to Cabinet Office