Brexit & Beyond

Brexit & Beyond

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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 · 2 June 2023 English

The failure of Brexit is now widely acknowledged and ever-more openly discussed. But there isn’t going to be some quick, neat or easy epochal change. Brexiters aren’t going to give …

noreferrer nofollow">his recent evidence to the European Parliament</a>, Anton Spisak, a Brexit expert at the Tony


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 …

deal to voters, and the Brexiters – Tory MPs and Tory and Brexit Party MEPs – subsequently voted for it in both the UK and European Parliaments.


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 …

rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the European Parliament</a>, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.


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 …

Withdrawal Agreement, including the NIP, in the European Parliament, he has since been <a href="https://www.express


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 July 2021 English

In the years before the Referendum – long before this blog started, so I haven’t kept links – I quite often came across pro-leave people explaining, usually in rather lofty …

The same goes for the Brexiter MPs and MEPs who voted for it in the British and European parliaments, although some of them


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 June 2021 English

In my previous post, I argued that I did not think that Joe Biden’s intervention, for all that it was reported to be diplomatically forceful, would make much difference to …

be forgotten, by Brexit Party MEPs in the European Parliament). And, unlike his private peccadilloes, the


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 April 2021 English

We have now passed the 100-day point since ‘economic Brexit’ – the end of the transition - and to mark it Yorkshire Bylines put together an excellent series of briefings …

Agreement (TCA) has still to be ratified by the European Parliament, and <a href="https://www.theparliamentmagazine


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 March 2021 English

We’re now a couple of months into actual Brexit, in the sense of the end of the transition period, although still only in the first phase of complete implementation of …

equivalence, and indeed to ratify the TCA. The European Parliament has now <a href="https://www.theguardian


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 February 2021 English

It was always going to be the case that post-Brexit the UK and the EU would be in ongoing negotiations, for which the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) would be …

nofollow">still to be ratified by the European Parliament</a>, by the way).<br /><br />Brexit is therefore


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 February 2021

The electronic ink had hardly dried on my previous post which finished with a reminder that unexpected events are always liable to arise than just such an event occurred. During …

one thing. And it bears saying that the European Parliament has not yet ratified the TCA, so it is hardly


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 January 2021 English

Another week and more stories of the disruption that Brexit is bringing to UK-EU trade in addition those in my recent posts. Fishing continues to be the most high-profile example …

Government</a>. An immediate issue is that the European Parliament has yet to ratify the TCA and the deadline TCA,  it’s not unreasonable that the European Parliament intends to scrutinise it diligently and seriously


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 November 2020 English

With Joe Biden’s victory now assured, millions of words have now been written – in the UK, if nowhere else – as to what it means for the US-UK relationship …

nofollow">boorish antics of the Brexit Party</a> in the European Parliament, as if ‘independence’ is a licence to ridicule


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 November 2020 English

The absence in the last week or so of the sound and fury that has accompanied the Brexit future terms negotiations since the end of the summer holidays might betoken …

downbeat assessment</a> when briefing the European Parliament on the progress of the negotiations on Wednesday for any deal struck to be ratified by the European Parliament so as to be in place by the beginning of


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 September 2020 English

The relatively quiet summer has ended with a bang, and Brexit has now pushed Britain into a dark and dangerous place. The developments this week have been extremely complex, so …

whose MEPs also voted for the WA, in the European Parliament).<br /><br />For these people, the issue


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 July 2020 English

This week, the practical realities of what Brexit is going to mean came into central focus for perhaps the first time, with a new government information campaign. Although there have …

Conservative MEP he also voted (in the European Parliament) for the WA and <a href="http://webcache


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 May 2020 English

This week the UK government, belatedly, made public its draft legal texts for an agreement with the EU, for the first time authorising them to be communicated to EU Member …

when the European anthem was played in the European Parliament think? That it would endear Britain