The Brexit Referendum results has sparked a number of changes in Whitehall. Members of existing miniseries are being told to send teams of officials to the Brexit ministry (or the Department for Exiting the European Union) in order to give continuity of negotiations of Britain’s withdrawal.

According to the FT “Britain has few trade negotiators because policy has been outsourced to the EU for the past 40 years. According to a recent report by a committee of MPs, Britain has between 12 and 20 officials ‘with direct knowledge of trade negotiations’. Canada, which recently negotiated a free-trade agreement with the EU, has 830.”

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