Brexit Weekly: 5 Things

You’ve seen it all before The clock is ticking: in just over five months, the UK will depart the European Union. Since the historic vote in June 2016, we’ve witnessed an endless stream of Brexit-related news, covering the claims, counter-claims, recriminations and...

EU referendum: The purdah wars

As EU referendum fever (or exasperation, given we’ve four more months of it) sets in and campaign groups of every persuasion increase the heat, another type of ‘conflict’ has raged in the background: purdah rules and the role of the civil service. For those needing a...