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Brexit: Organising Whitehall to deliver: Briefing paper

Preparing for, negotiating and implementing Britain’s exit from the European Union will preoccupy Whitehall and government in the coming months and ye

Julian McCrae Jill Rutter
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Brexit/EU

Preparing for, negotiating and implementing Britain’s exit from the European Union will inevitably preoccupy Whitehall and government in the coming months and years. The next Prime Minister will need to organise Whitehall to get this job done. This IfG briefing paper looks at the options.

Topic
Brexit
Keywords
The union Withdrawal Agreement Trade
Country (international)
European Union
Administration
May government
Department
Cabinet Office
Publisher
Institute for Government

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