Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

It’s finally here After all the column inches, commentary and conjecture, Britain formally triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty this week – becoming the first country to do so. Despite the belief of Lord Kerr, the UK civil servant who drafted Article 50, that...
Brexit, regulation and scrutiny

Brexit, regulation and scrutiny

When the Daily Telegraph splashed with a campaign to “sweep aside thousands of needless EU regulations after Brexit,” it highlighted two very important points. The first was the scale of the job facing Whitehall. The second was the potential for EU regulations to be...

Brexit Weekly: 5 things

Setting a date 280 days, 6,720 hours, 403,200 minutes, or 24,192,000 seconds: all of the above would earn you points in a pub quiz, as correct answers for the length of time between the EU referendum on 23rd June 2016 and the UK formally triggering Article 50 on 29th...