🚨 IT'S HERE! 🚨
🇬🇧 Our UK-India relations report with
@KingsIndiaInst
is out NOW!!! 🇮🇳
👉 Covering trade, migration, cultural ties, politics and the diaspora, voters, and elections.🏏
🗳️ In this critical election year you really can't be without it
A huge congratulations to senior fellow
@hayward_katy
who has been promoted to Professor at
@QUBelfast
@QUBSSESW
. 🎇🎉
Katy works on the future & status of Northern Ireland after Brexit.
NEW: Professor Damian Chalmers on the
#BrexitDeal
"For the EU, it was all about ensuring that the terms of competition favoured EU business over British business ... the EU secured its objectives in spades."
Read his blog below 🔽
🗣️ "Prince Harry or Piers Morgan? Pret or Greggs? Netflix or the BBC?"
📺 Watch
@TomTugendhat
take our quickfire quiz with
@anandMenon1
.
👉 Then check out the full Unlocked discussion on defence, the UK's role in the world, and more.
📊 Recent polling has suggested a record number of people have changed their minds about Brexit. But who are they?
🚨 New from
@p_surridge
&
@DrAlanWager
breaking down shifting public attitudes towards Brexit by age, education, & geography.
.
@anandMenon1
: leaving without a deal has enormous consequences.
It will have profound impact on how economy works.
There’s no planning, there’s no preparation and that’s what I find mystifying
#bbcqt
@bbcquestiontime
'As the Liberal Democrats are stronger where Labour is weaker, and vice versa ... the Conservatives’ comfortable poll leads may not translate into the large majority Boris Johnson is hoping for'.
@leonardocarella
explains:
"This is one of the delicious paradoxes of where we're at"
Watch John Curtice
@whatukthinks
unpack Labour's
#Brexit
position at our 'Governance after Brexit' conference last week.
👀 Then check out our thread 🧵👇 or watch the conference back in full 📺
🚨 STARTING NOW 🚨
Our one-day conference showcasing leading Brexit research from the
@ESRC
'Governance after Brexit' programme.
🤳We'll be posting highlights on here all day.
Tune in live now to hear Programme Director
@DanielWinc
's introduction 📺👇
🗣️ “I think the 2016 referendum is going to be as unsuccessful as the 1975 one".
👉As featured in Playbook this morning, Sir John Curtice predicts that there may be another EU referendum before 2040.
👀 Catch up on last night's Unlocked here
Until the
#EUref
, I wasn't aware of anyone questioning my integrity, it's now become daily abuse directed at me, and it's because people don't like facts, says
@adamboultonSKY
@SkyNews
#mediabrexit
🚨 IT'S LIVE! 🚨
📝Our UK-EU regulatory divergence tracker provides an overview of where and how the
#UK
has used its newfound regulatory freedoms to diverge from EU standards and you can download it NOW on our website HERE 🔻🔻🔻
Big changes are coming for UK and EU citizens on 1 January when the transition period ends 📆
Each day for the rest of December, we’re publishing different changes that the public need to be aware of.
Follow this thread… 👇
#BrexitChanges
🚨 NEW 🚨
📝 We're launching a series of ‘beginner’s guides’.
🇪🇺 First up, an accessible guide to the European Union.
⚖️ Find out about the EU's institutions, its history, how EU law is made, & much more.
👩🎓 Perfect for A-level students & undergrads.
🗣️ "Generally speaking, this is closing down the asylum system"
📺 Watch as
@ColinYeo1
outlines the impact of the Immigration Bill and what it means for the asylum system in the UK.
"Now, it’s not the case that all Leavers are lockdown sceptics. But it’s pretty much the case that all lockdown sceptics are Leavers."
@ProfTimBale
&
@DrAlanWager
look at whether lockdown-scepticism and Euroscepticism are linked in British politics 👇
"Countries trade more with countries closer to them. So yeah, we can sign a trade deal with China or New Zealand or Australia...But there's a vanishingly small chance of those coming anywhere near what we're losing with the EU because of the Brexit deal."
@anandMenon1
📣👇📺
🗣️
@anandMenon1
asks the really really big questions to Sir John Curtice....
👉 When does he find out the result of the Exit Poll on election day?
👀 And listen to the audience reaction...
Boris Johnson says in response to the government's defeat that 'a lot of the scare stories about the WTO are exaggerated'.
This short guide explains what trading 'on WTO terms' would mean:
👀 Did you know that Tony Blair and John Curtice were at Oxford together in the 1970s?
🎸 "Tony Blair played in bands and I never went to gigs. And Tony Blair never did politics so our paths never crossed".
John Bercow describes Theresa May’s decision not to pursue a more collegiate and cross-party Brexit strategy after the 2017 general election as ‘perverse and inexplicable’
#ParliamentandBrexit
"The enduring legacy of Brexit is a massive loss of respect and sympathy for a country that for centuries was admired as a bastion of pragmatism and liberal values. The UK is losing soft power faster than hard power."
NEW by Dr Rudolf G Adams 👇
"It's very very easy to laugh at Parliament and indeed to laugh at Britain and say what a mess, but actually, this is democracy at work," says
@anandMenon1
#Brexit
#indicativevotes
🗣️ “You wait ages for a decent report on Brexit and how to fix it, and then two come along at once”.
👉 Read the latest analysis of our report in
@pmdfoster
latest Britain after Brexit newsletter.
🚨 NEW REPORT: THE INVESTMENT GAP 🚨
🏦 Following Brexit, the UK lost access to funding from the European Investment Bank.
📢 Our new report finds that the UK’s development banks have only managed to replace a third of lost EIB investment.
1/9
Yesterday
@anandMenon1
gave evidence
@commonsFREU
on the progress of talks between the UK & EU on their future relationship.
He said
#covid19UK
makes the case for an extension much, much stronger, and makes it more difficult to carry out the negotiations.
"The EU will continue to negotiate and will continue to hold firm on the level playing field. Although the EU will not push the UK off the cliff edge, it cannot prevent the UK from jumping."
@HusseinHKassim
on the
#Brexit
negotiations 👇
@Politics_UEA
If
@BorisJohnson
"wants to show he is capable of the job, he urgently needs to establish a long-term, sustainable structure of people who can help him govern, not campaign." writes
@jillongovt
Read her NEW blog here ⬇
What will happen if there's a no deal Brexit? Conservative MPs expect:
•no long queues at ports
•no drop in house prices
•no medical shortages
•no flight cancellations
•BUT a significant drop in the £
Our latest polling of MPs with
@MileEndInst
:
The early signs are that most economists and trade experts were broadly right when re the impacts of Brexit.
@jdportes
at our first
#UKICESpotlightEconomics
event on Monday 🎥
"So far, so good, for the experts."
WATCH it back here 👇
"Most pressing, of course, is no deal itself. The UK government has taken a big step in this direction, aimed at convincing the EU that it is a credible threat. But there is a problem: the EU does not regard it as such."
@matt_bevington
“A lot of people voted leave for a lot of different reasons – one of the reasons was to voice discontent with the state of their own lives.” Some of
@anandMenon1
's speech at
@TEDxGlasgow
. Watch it in full here:
@PickardJE
Our freeports report notes UK had freeports until 2012 when legislation lapsed. Reasons for this are unclear. Suggestion freeports were: of limited use, made no difference to govt revenue or customs reliefs and introduced customs complexities
🚨📣 NEW REPORT 🚨📣
Check out our
#BrexitandBeyondReport
out today 🔊 Over 70 leading academics come together to assess the opportunities & challenges that confront the UK now it has left the European Union.
🔽🔽🔽
🗣️ "A concerning feature of the observed mortality over the last twelve months is the deviation from the usual seasonal pattern seen in the UK."
Why have there have been excess deaths in the UK this summer? Find out MORE from
@ActuaryByDay
👇👇
We have formed a new
#Brexit
Policy Panel (BPP). The BPP is a cross-disciplinary group of over 100 leading social scientists created to provide ongoing analysis of where we have got to in the Brexit process, & to forecast where we are headed.
Results here
‘The procedural issue is quite simple, which is you can’t unilaterally extend the grace period, which is part of a bilateral agreement.’
Professor
@anandMenon1
explains why the
#EU
are taking action against the UK over the NI Protocol.
👇👇📺
Check out our NEW
#BrexitWitnessArchive
: on the record interviews with key figures that impacted the Brexit process, on all sides of the debate.
Every week, we will be adding fresh perspectives. Find out more and read our first six interviews.👇👇👇
🎥"If today was a crunch time in UK-EU talks over the
#NorthernIreland
Protocol, the outcome is a bit of a soggy disappointment".
📝
@hayward_katy
presents her analysis of today's statement by Lord Frost on the Protocol, which includes a point about triggering
#Article16
👇👇
"Part of the problem we're having at the borders now will be overcome, because it is a question of traders learning to use the right forms, learning how to fill them in..."
👇📺
@anandMenon1
@bbcquestiontime
As part of the launch of the
#BrexitWitnessArchive
former Chancellor
@PhilipHammondUK
talks about his experience working closely with the PM, her advisors and officials during the Brexit process.
Check out the full interview 👇👇
🚨 "To ensure that decisions about
the laws in force in Britain are taken in Britain".
In June
@DavidGHFrost
explained his approach to Brexit negotiations and the government's strategy at our annual conference.
We're living through what's perhaps an unparallel moment in British political history says
@anandMenon1
WATCH this video from our director sharing his thoughts on the
#BrexitChaos
today
📢 Being in the EU is the more popular option in polls now, writes John Curtice
@whatukthinks
because those who did not or could not vote in 2016 support rejoining by more than three to one
We have a Brexit deal. But what happens now?
We have five new blogs that explore the impact on UK-EU relations, Whitehall, Westminster and two sectors impacted both by what is and isn't in the deal - fisheries and financial services.
Read below for more 👇👇👇 1/6
📺 Watching
@BBCRosAtkins
examine the UK's record rise in net migration on
#Panorama
?
🚨📊 Senior Fellow
@robfordmancs
has brand NEW polling out now exploring what the public think about different kinds of migration to the UK.
🔗
🚨 NEW REPORT🚨
Based on interviews with people inside and outside government, we assess how far the UK state has adapted to Brexit.
We find:
👉Increase in civil service numbers
👉Lack of post-Brexit 'strategic vision'
👉Relations still strained
🧵👇
.
@Bentonra
: I was at a British Embassy event in Dublin the other day and the main question being asked of the Brits was: 'what the hell has happened to you?'. Far right populists have captured the government.
#UKICEWorldBeyondBrexit
NEW
#BrexitBreakdown
episode 🎙️ 🎙️
@IanDunt
@MelanieLatest
&
@anandMenon1
discuss what they have learned over the past 3 years, the divide over social values in this country and what is likely to happen over the course of the negotiations this year.
🚨 We're entering a new phase - renewed funding, an expanded team, and a wider agenda.
UK in a Changing Europe is going to be doing much, much more.
🗨️ Our Director
@anandMenon1
tells you everything you need to know 👇
🗨️ "It’s going to make things a lot harder, slower, and more expensive."
👀 Don't miss
@ColdChainShane
, Chief Exec of
@ColdChainFed
, on the likely impact for UK food supply of the government's new border rules.
We have just published this great new explainer on the customs union, written by
@AnnaJerzewska
. If you’re still wondering how a customs union works, or what a customs union
#Brexit
deal might look like, this is the piece for you.
🗣️ "One of the problems is that they spend so much time fighting each other that we can't do policy for the medium and long term".
📺
@anandMenon1
explains why parties need to work together on big issues like social care.
#BBCQT
🇪🇺 Will the UK ever rejoin the EU asks
@anandMenon1
?
🗳️Lord Heseltine thinks it might happen within the next decade....
🗣️ "I can't tell you what the crisis will be...but there are massive issues out there on the global stage".
📣We're very excited to announce that
@p_surridge
and
@csbarnard24
are the NEW Deputy Directors of UK in a Changing Europe.
Looking forward to the all the knowledge and insight they'll be bringing to the team this year 🎉
Did you catch
@anandMenon1
on
@bbcquestiontime
last week?
#BBCQT
Here he is talking about Boris Johnson's Brexit proposals, what they say about Northern Ireland and the reaction from Brussels to them.
New to our Brexit Witness Archive is an interview with
@SirJJQC
– Head of the Government Legal Service, 2014-2020 – who explains how the legal aspects of Brexit were managed, from the referendum through to the Internal Market Act.
#WitnessWednesdays
📊 NEW POLLING 📊
✍️ "With no
#Brexit
‘glue’, Leave voters are no longer wedded to the Conservative Party. Indeed, our new polling with
@RedfieldWilton
shows a declining attachment to the Tories", writes
@SophieStowers
.
Find out more:
🗣 “You’re running a natural experiment in what happens when you run a trade war on yourself”.
@AdamPosen
is speaking with
@lizzzburden
about food prices and inflation at
#EconafterBrexit
🔽🔽