Global Britain

Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how this summer’s events have overtaken Frost’s approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol, and where that approach might now lead, including whether Boris Johnson might ditch him.

Professor Chris Grey’s brilliant political analysis on recent developments – including Afghanistan – in terms of different responses to the realities of Brexit: denial, bluster, performativity, bombast, quiet realism, noisy fantasy, and silence.

On the government’s attempt to conceptualise the new foreign policy and security environment for the post-Brexit UK with the Integrated Review.

After Brexit, does ‘Global Britain’ mean a foreign policy focused on sticking with the US in its rivalry with China rather than having an ambitious global trade policy?

Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on why the shape of the deal isn’t a surprise and is damage limitation at best, a reminder that leaving the EU Single Market means the end of the ‘UK’ single market, and why this isn’t the end of Brexit but a new phase.

Brexit fans will be delighted tonight. But it won’t last... From tonight, we start slowly moving back towards joining the only trade bloc around.

Professor Chris Grey’s Brexit analysis on continuing uncertainty about deal/no-deal, how it links to the US election and geo-politics and domestic politics of Covid-19, what Labour’s role could be, and new reports on UK unpreparedness for the end of transition.