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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 · 8 March 2024 English
Writing this weekly blog creates a certain rhythm, though the nature of it has changed over the years. In fact, in the early years it wasn’t always weekly, as I …
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 · 3 December 2021
This week saw the publication of an update of one of the major studies of the impact of Brexit on UK trade, conducted by John Springford of the Centre for …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 October 2021 English
Over the last few years, one of the most acute commentators on Brexit has been Jonathan Lis, and in a recent article he concludes that the three fundamental consequences of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 September 2021 English
It’s now exactly five years since I started this blog and, as it enters its sixth year, with a pleasing symmetry, it will today have its six millionth visit. I …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 August 2021
At the corner of my road is a display board for local notices and, recently, the council have put one up about a project to support local businesses and community …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 May 2021 English
It has been a pretty standard week for directly Brexit-related news – I put it that way because in many ways almost everything the government does, from demanding that the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 May 2021 English
One way of telling the story of Brexit is that it was sold to the British public as, and perhaps believed by its advocates to be, a project to regain …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 April 2021 English
We’re probably long past the closing date for nominations for the prize for the most absurd and mendacious comment about Brexit, including the category reserved for those made by Boris …
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 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 March 2021 English
This will be a slightly shorter post than usual. That’s partly because this week I’ve been working on the proofs of my forthcoming book, Brexit Unfolded. How no one got …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 March 2021
It has been a complicated week for Brexit news. If there is a unifying thread that runs through it, it is of the consequences not just of Brexit but of …
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 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 January 2021 English
The stories of Brexit disruption catalogued in my last few posts continue apace, not least because firms which had built up stockpiles in anticipation of the end of the transition …
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 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 January 2021 English
Having initially spoken of there being some bumps in the road, Michael Gove last weekend told businesses to prepare for “significant disruption” as a result of Brexit. He was right …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 October 2020 English
The last ten days were supposed to be my break from Brexit hence, as trailed two weeks ago, there was no post on this blog last Friday. But escaping did …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 October 2020 English
As this supposedly final week of Brexit trade talks ends, the ‘will they, won’t they?’ show continues to play out like an amateur production of an absurdist play or, perhaps …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 September 2020 English
By recent standards it has been a relatively quiet Brexit week, although also a revealing one in which several chickens have come home to roost as the end of the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 August 2020
Despite another round of negotiations having been held it has been a relatively quiet Brexit week. The main noise emerging from the talks has been about UK fury at the …