The Brexit trade department was sent drafts of Legatum reports that called for UK to leave the customs union and single market.
Not exact matches
The departmental structure around them is also shifting, with Remainer Damian Green taking over effectively as deputy prime minister in the Cabinet Office, which was linking the work being done in the
Brexit department with Liam Fox's Department for International Trade and the Foreign Office under Bori
department with Liam Fox's
Department for International Trade and the Foreign Office under Bori
Department for International
Trade and the Foreign Office under Boris Johnson.
Trade body officials visiting Davis at the
Brexit department report being taken aside by civil servants and told to go in saying that
Brexit opens up many possibilities.
And then, at the end, comes the punchline, as the
Brexit department announces its consultations with businesses and
trade groups on the new arrangement.
The environment and
trade departments do not have a clear plan of
Brexit priorities and must explain what they will not be delivering, according to the public accounts committee.
Some DIT
trade negotiators and experts are expected initially also to carry out work for the
Brexit ministry, officially known as the
Department for Exiting the European Union, as the UK seeks to thrash out its new relationship with the EU before spring 2019.
The
Brexit Department and the
Department for International
Trade (DIT) are both recruiting experts as the Prime Minister prepares to trigger Article 50 to start the two - year process of quitting the EU, possibly as soon as next week and certainly by the end of the month.
Also revealed were the newly created roles of secretary of state for exiting the European Union,
Brexit minister, which is to be taken up by David Davis; and a new
Department for International
Trade, to be headed up by Liam Fox.
Both Defra and the
Department for International
Trade have no clear plan and limited time to prepare for
Brexit, report by Parliament's Public Accounts Committee argues