“It is vital Theresa May does not let her one-nation Conservatism experience a similar sacrifice at the behest of Brexit. Many civil servants have shifted from domestic roles to Brexit posts in a huge, destabilising, but necessary, reconfiguration of Whitehall. Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary, has described the task of managing his Brexit troops in Whitehall as “the biggest, most complex challenge facing the civil service in our peacetime history”. “Economic priorities – such as R&D, skills and infrastructure spending – will get higher priority in public spending. These lobbies will find themselves competing with the public services that have lost most from austerity, such as social care.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2017 06:00 UTC