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Chris Grey is Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was previously a Professor at Cambridge University and Warwick University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). He originally studied Economics and Politics at Manchester University, where he also gained a PhD on the regulation of financial services. "Best guy to follow on Brexit for intelligent analysis" Annette Dittert, ARD German TV. "Consistently outstanding analysis of Brexit" Jonathan Dimbleby. "The best writer on Brexit" Chris Lockwood, Europe Editor, The Economist. "A must-read for anyone following Brexit" David Allen Green, FT. "The doyen of Brexit commentators" Chris Johns, Irish Times. @ChrisGrey@mastodon.online & Twitter @chrisgreybrexit
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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 February 2023 English
Two weeks ago I posted about the ongoing schism between ‘Brexitists’ and ‘Traditionalists’ within British Conservatism. Then, last week, I wrote about the battle for the post-Brexit polity in terms …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 February 2023 English
In the book I wrote about Brexit I anticipated (pp. 275-278) two broad scenarios for how the immediate future would develop once the realities of Brexit began to be felt …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 February 2023 English
It’s almost impossible to over-state the extent to which Brexit is bound up with the peculiarities, schisms, crises and in some parts almost madness of modern British Conservativism. In the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 February 2023 English
This week saw the third anniversary of the UK’s departure from the EU, and with it a flurry of assessments and opinion polls. These broadly reflect what I have been …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 January 2023 English
This week David Lammy, the Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary, gave a major and important speech at Chatham House. It wasn’t by any means all about Brexit, but, even where it …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 January 2023 English
Despite the two-week gap since my last post, Brexit developments have been relatively sparse. There is, as always, the endless drip of bad news stories and of new data on …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 January 2023 English
In terms of the big picture of Brexit, nothing has really changed since the post I wrote just before Christmas. The gist of it was that until political leaders face …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 December 2022 English
I had intended my previous post to be the last of 2022. Yet, even during what could be expected to be the relative quiet of the holiday period, there has …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 December 2022 English
It seems almost a lifetime ago, but in fact is only two years, that we were heading towards Christmas still not knowing whether there would be a UK-EU trade deal …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 December 2022 English
I’ve spent quite a lot of time both in last week’s post and the one before discussing Labour’s Brexit position. That’s because, as the earlier of those posts concluded, it’s …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 December 2022 English
A few weeks ago I wrote about how, with public opinion now firmly settling to the view that Brexit has been an economically damaging failure, Brexiter ideologues were out in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 November 2022 English
There has been a palpable change in the last week. Brexit is suddenly being more widely talked about again, and not just talked about but questioned and criticised. Despite having …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 November 2022 English
The long-awaited Budget – in all but name – has now arrived, but the public could be forgiven for not realising the extent to which it is a Brexit budget, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 November 2022 English
Brexit is in one of its periodic doldrums. That’s not to say that all the ongoing problems and miseries it has created have abated, or that the almost daily reminders …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 November 2022 English
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that, “the current political chaos and economic turmoil have served to crystallize what has actually been under way for a while. Having won …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 October 2022 English
So the brief interruption to his seemingly permanent holidays from the MP’s job he is paid for was all for nothing in the end, as Boris Johnson’s bid to return …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 October 2022 English
It’s becoming hard to write this blog without being repetitious and, in being repetitious, introducing a distasteful ‘I told you so’ tone. But distasteful as it may be, the deepening …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 October 2022 English
The events of the last week are an almost textbook illustration of the point I made a couple of posts ago that “governments are constrained in ways that thinktanks aren’t, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 September 2022 English
The political ambitions of the libertarian wing of the Brexit Ultras have always been ambivalent. On the one hand, they have largely preferred to complain of betrayal from the sidelines …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 September 2022 English
What a fortnight to have been on holiday from blogging! That Liz Truss would become Prime Minister was, of course, expected; that the Queen would die two days later was …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 August 2022 English
In a couple of weeks we will have a new Prime Minister, bringing an end to the strangest political summer of my lifetime. It has been a summer marked by …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 August 2022 English
Against the backdrop of a serious, growing, and multi-faceted economic crisis, the Tory leadership contest grinds on. The two contenders have little to say that matches the scale of this …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 July 2022 English
In some ways these are golden weeks for Labour. The Johnson government is collapsing amid scandal, and the leadership contest has revealed how limited the talent within the Tory Party …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2022 English
In recent years, my pattern has been to post on this blog once a week. But occasionally, if an issue of particular importance comes up, I write an extra one, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 July 2022 English
An air of sticky and suffocating unreality has pervaded British politics this week, quite as much as it has the weather. The ongoing contest to replace Boris Johnson seems completely …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 July 2022 English
As the dust begins to settle on Boris Johnson’s downfall, it’s worth emphasizing that it was inextricably bound up with Brexit even though Brexit wasn’t its direct cause. Unusually and …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 July 2022 English
The dramatic collapse of Boris Johnson’s premiership is inseparable from Brexit. His rise to power was built on Brexit, whilst the spectacular immorality and mendacity that caused his eventual downfall …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 July 2022 English
Having last week written some thoughts about the next six years of the Brexit process, this week has had a distinctly ‘back to 2019’ feeling about it with the passing …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 June 2022 English
We’re now six years on from the referendum, but I’m not going to do an ‘anniversary round-up post’ because I did that in April, to mark six years since the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 June 2022 English
Since the very early days of this blog in 2016, I have been writing about the self-pitying victimhood and perpetual grievance that permeates the political psychology of Brexit. A recent …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 June 2022 English
Three years ago, when the Brexit process was in a limbo whilst the Tory Party held the leadership election that Boris Johnson eventually won, I wrote of a Brexit aporia, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 June 2022 English
From time to time I lose motivation to write this blog or even to continue following Brexit developments. It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of other things to write …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 May 2022 English
It is difficult to make sense of what Johnson’s Brexit government is doing, or trying to do, as regards the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP). I discussed the background in last …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 May 2022 English
Last weekend’s results of the Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA) elections marked a significant moment both in the history of Northern Ireland and also in the Brexit process. That does not …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 May 2022 English
A few weeks ago I wrote about what seemed to be an emergent ‘admission-yet-denial’ phenomenon amongst Brexiters. It was prompted by Rishi Sunak’s remark that the damage done by Brexit …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 April 2022 English
It is now just over six years since the start of the official campaign for the 2016 referendum, years which have transformed and polarized British politics, economics and culture. What …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 April 2022 English
I don’t have time this week for my normal long post, but in any case last Friday's largely continues to cover the current political situation, dominated as it is by …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 April 2022 English
The refusal of Boris Johnson to resign, despite being the first sitting Prime Minister ever to have broken the law and despite all the lies he has told about having …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 April 2022 English
A few weeks ago, when it was revealed that the government does not keep records on delays and lorry queues at Dover, I remarked in passing that it was like …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 April 2022 English
It came with a whimper not a bang, but finally this week a government minister – Chancellor Rishi Sunak, no less – admitted at least some of the truth about …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 March 2022 English
The peril of writing a blog which is contemporaneous with events is that it can suddenly be overtaken by those events. Actually, in the years I’ve been writing this blog …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 March 2022 English
It’s hardly surprising that the Ukraine war continues to command media and public attention, displacing most other news, including Brexit news. But perhaps there is more to it than that. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 March 2022 English
This week, in one of his regular and excellent analyses of the Ukraine War, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London, makes an interesting observation …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 March 2022 English
I want to begin this post by saying, unequivocally, that of all the many dimensions of the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, Brexit is very low on the list of things …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 February 2022 English
Since its use on the very day after the referendum, it has become a cliché to say that Brexiters are like ‘the dog that caught the car’, achieving something they …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 February 2022 English
In today’s Daily Mail one of the most longstanding and hard line Brexiters, the former Tory Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, yet again put forward a series of arguments …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 February 2022 English
In his last ‘Week in Brexitland’ post, the journalist Nick Tyrone suggests the political conversation about Brexit is shifting from the abstract to “whether the Brexit we’ve ended up with …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 February 2022 English
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive” Sir Walter ScottIn an article this week the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik neatly skewered the present political …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 February 2022 English
Anniversaries matter, both in our personal lives and in the way that societies and nations define themselves. What we do and don’t celebrate or commemorate, and how, and what we …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 January 2022 English
I’ve noticed recently that I’ve started making cynical jokes on my Twitter account, which I set up to disseminate serious news about Brexit, as well as posts on this blog. …