Foreign Affairs

The NCA’s Nina Cope tells Tamsin Rutter about the agency’s aim to break down barriers, and help cement its reputation at the “pinnacle of law enforcement”

Reports had indicated the army are also on standby to help distribute out medicines, food and fuel to vulnerable communities

Cost of protecting key communication link deemed prohibitive in 1990

Union and Labour call for government to disclose whether officials are being monitored for their political beliefs

National Archives files reveal that 1,420 Whitehall staff were monitored by security services

Select committee warns that an international development plan focused on trade alone could actively disadvantage the most marginalised groups

Matthew Rycroft has undertaken some challenging foreign policy roles in government, from helping end the war in Bosnia to facing down Russia in the UN security council. As he settles into his new role as permanent secretary of the Department for International Development he speaks to Richard Johnstone about the need for closer links with other departments, and the importance of showing what’s possible through the international aid budget

New Brexit secretary Dominic Raab defends White Paper on future relationship between UK and EU as “principled and practical”

Second Cabinet resignation in two days leads to questions over government’s Brexit approach only days after supposed agreement

Permanent secretary Antonia Romeo says department has appointed top team and will now focus on building capability. Tamsin Rutter reports on DIT’s next steps

Natalie Black to join Department for International Trade representing UK interests in Asia Pacific region

Cipfa survey also finds three quarters of leaders are “more negative about Brexit now than last year”