Rishi Sunak did get a nod for improving one element for post-Brexit Britain, though.
The government has been heavily criticised in a new report about how it is handling the UK post-Brexit and “underestimated” the impact of leaving the bloc. A lengthy study from UK In A Changing Europe, published this week, has examined how the country has coped since leaving the EU – and concluded the UK is struggling to cope. Post-Brexit policymaking is ‘unstable’ Eight years since Brits narrowly voted to leave the trading bloc and five years since Boris Johnson vowed to “get Brexit done”, “the post-Brexit state is still very much a work in progress”, the experts claimed. In fact, the government “lacks a strategic vision of what post-Brexit policymaking should look like”. It added: “An approach is emerging from a series of bottom-up decisions by individual ministers, creating a policy landscape which is incoherent and uncertain. “Policy is unstable due to ministerial churn, a lack of central direction, and vulnerability to lobbying.” That’s not a surprising conclusion, as we’ve seen five prime ministers since the EU referendum and two general elections. Government objectives have “chopped and changed” repeatedly, and Brexit has “taken a toll” on relations within the government – particularly between ministers, their watchdogs and their civil servants. And, as a result of leaving the EU, devolved governments now have new pressures despite a “lack of capacity”.
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