How to Judge Brexit a Success or Failure?

The government’s preparations for regulatory trade negotiations are less advanced than they should be. Discussions are still taking place within government on the UK’s position on a number of important regulatory issues. This creates a real risk that the government will be pushed into making concessions it shouldn’t – or will fail to make concessions…

Operation Yellowhammer In 2019 the Government produced Brexit Worst Case Predictions for a No deal Brexit ‘Reasonable Worst Case Scenario’ for internal use only called ‘Operation Yellowhammer‘. This was leaked to the Sunday Times and the Institute for Government produced a summary. No Preparation The Government chose to produce a ‘Hard Brexit’ with no preparation,…

A North Herts for Europe presentation A Zoom webinar with Jonty Bloom, formerly BBC business and economics correspondent, now freelance journalist and blogger. His blog, Jonty’s Jottings, can be found on https://jonty.substack.com/. He worked in the City before becoming a journalist. Jonty presents a 40-minute review of the ways in which Brexit will impact the…

Like pointed out elsewhere, this means that UK artists now have the same exact rights in those 19 EU countries than, say, Australian artists do. What that means is that precisely nothing has changed with those negotiations but someone felt the need for positive news. Jouni K – August 2021 UK has just changed “no…

They We are all sick and tired of Brexit and would like to hear no more of it.   Does Boris really think it can all be put behind us and we can then get on with everything else that needs to be done – the NHS, schools, jobs, housing, social care, and so much more?…