03 August 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit TRANSITION: In a move which has attracted broad cross-party support but is still contentious within the Cabinet, Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has said that he would like to see a transitional deal which left trading relations with the EU much as they are now… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Week In Brief: UK
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Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Flexible Government (John Watson)
03 August 2017 Flexible Government The need to bring the other parties on board. By John Watson Remember Napoleon as he stood with his victorious officers before the tomb of Frederick the Great at Potsdam: “Hats off, gentlemen. If he were still alive we would not be here”. No soldier has ever received a better… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Flexible Government (John Watson)
Issue 103: 2017 05 04: Week in Brief: UK
04 May 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit JUNCKER’S DINNER: German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine carries reports that a dinner at Number 10, which Mr Juncker described as “a constructive meeting”, was in reality nothing of the sort. Rather, it is suggested that the occasion was fractious with “megaphone diplomacy” and that it left him sceptical… Continue reading Issue 103: 2017 05 04: Week in Brief: UK
