9TH APRIL 2021 THE REALITY BEHIND EUROPE MONTHLY £3.50 How the Civil Service has Coped with Brexit Jill Rutter ad a Brexit unit been set up at referendum. But there are also some decision had been made. the time of the renegotiation – hard questions for the civil service to The replacement of Theresa May by Hor indeed when the ask itself about the extent to which it has – contrary to what referendum was first floated – it might forced ministers to think through the many expected – made the civil have given an indication of the scale of detailed consequences of their decision service’s life much easier. This was a the task of untangling the UK-EU to put UK membership on the line, not Government with a clear set of relationship. Forty-five years of EU least the very stark implications for the priorities; sovereignty first, economy membership meant not only that the future of the Union in general and second. The installation of David impact of the EU was both deep and Northern Ireland in particular. Frost, a Political Appointee as Chief wide, but also that it was somewhat Negotiator, proved an unlikely boon: it taken for granted and hence poorly Brexit reversed cuts in removed any sense that the civil understood. There was little focus on civil service numbers service (which supplies the rest of the how the border with the EU operated, There was another respect in which the negotiating team) was pursuing its the relationship between EU civil service was not ready for Brexit. own agenda, independent of ministers. membership and devolution within the Since 2009 its size had been on a The Frost team – with its two civil UK, or the implications of the Single steady downward trajectory – and the service deputies – was prepared to Market and Customs Union for trading Government had plans for a further big work more closely with the UK’s EU patterns. reduction after 2015. As Deloitte experts in Brussels than the Robbins “The civil service faced two stated, that was not sustainable in the team ever did. The civil service has challenges: skills and numbers. Brexit face of Brexit. come under fire in 2020 but not due to meant developing capabilities – like Theresa May’s first acts on the Brexit negotiations. trade negotiation – that Whitehall had becoming Prime Minister were to not needed for decades. The civil create two new Government The post-Brexit balance sheet service had to hunt for external talent departments: the temporary So has the civil service survived the to fill gaps.” Department for Exiting the EU ‘existential threat’ from Brexit? And it was not just the EU (DExEU) and the permanent It is bigger. It has attracted new relationship that was poorly Department for International Tr a d e . blood. And it can take pride in the fact understood. Taking Brexit forward The consequences of these so-called that it has supported a Government to also meant understanding the machinery of government changes get the sort of Brexit it wanted. Even if complexity of a relationship with the were, in the words of Philip many will say that the negotiations devolved governments, which was Hammond, ‘not deeply thought could have been handled better, both predicated on a framework of EU through’. The creation of a under May and Johnson, it is clearly membership. Meanwhile, the freestanding Brexit department led to now the politicians who own the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement had inevitable tensions with No.10, which outcome. Down the line, ministers sunk into the background of ultimately wanted to control the may complain that they were not Whitehall’s collective memory. negotiations; and the creation of the warned of unexpected consequences, There is a lot of political blame to new trade department appeared to but the fact that David Frost be handed out for the casual way in signal that the UK would leave the personified the exit negotiations means which politicians approached the EU’s Customs Union before any such Continued on page 2

INSIDE: On going EU payments p 3 - The EU agency that eats well p 3 - The Northern Ireland Protocol p 4 – Crowd funding p 5 - Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) - Letters p 6 VOL 26 NO 8 How the Civil Service has Coped with Brexit Jill Rutter Continued from page 1 The civil service will also have to The danger is that the atmospherics at he will be held responsible for that. find a way of hanging on to what EU the top – the Cummings legacy – mean Ministers, for their part, can take expertise it has left. It will no longer be that top civil servants are too reluctant comfort from confounding Whitehall able tempt good people to Brussels to call out dubious practices and gloomsters like Sir Ivan Rogers, with the lure of being ‘in the room confront ministers with challenging who warned, where it happens’ – or at least not in the advice. “It Could Take 10 Years to do a free main room. The UK will not be trade deal with the EU”. negotiating Kim Darroch’s widgets The Civil Service response to Covid directive, but it will be on an The civil service rose to the challenge The next big challenge from Brexit intelligence gathering mission to find of Brexit, particularly once ministers is to see what the UK can do with its out what the widgets directive might finally made clear what they thought new found powers. Much of the day- say and whether it needs to launch an Brexit meant. The additional challenge to-day task of making Brexit work will influencing strategy to try to stop it of Covid-19 exposed weaknesses – as fall not to Whitehall but to the arm’s harming British interests. well as some surprising strengths – length bodies who have taken over The Trade and Cooperation though only a full-blown public many of the responsibilities formerly Agreement sets up a massive inquiry will make clear how blame exercised by the Commission. T h e superstructure of committees to should be apportioned between government has signed up to give new oversee its operation. Understanding ministers and their civil and public the way the EU operates will still servants. But Brexit and the handling powers to quangos – the Competition matter. The ‘judge over your shoulder’ of Covid-19 both showed up areas that and Markets Authority and the Office guide which warns civil servants of the would benefit from reform, as well as for Environmental Protection among need to think about the risk of judicial new ways of working that need to be them. There is a tricky relationship review, will sit alongside the ‘eurocrat sustained. Ministers may, for example, with these semi-independent bodies to in the corner’, watching to see if the be keen to draw lessons from manage if they are to have enough UK is tilting the level playing field too t h e SUCCESS OF THE VA C C I N E credibility to do their job convincingly. far. There are dangers for the civil TASK FORCE and see whether that But there are also new policies to be service in the gap between the gung-ho model can be applied elsewhere. made, and made work, in areas where optimism of ministers and the reality of Whitehall has not had policy discretion what they have signed up to. At the As the UK heads into a future and associated expertise for decades. moment it is hard to say how outside the EU, the civil service will be Defra made an ALMIGHTY HASH constraining the agreement will prove keen to show that it can help ministers OF IMPLEMENTING CAP to be in practice. And the UK will need as they take back control and show the REFORM (a reform it had advocated) to establish a basis for working Governments of the EU that the UK in the 2000’s, ending up paying a positively with the EU on the shared can indeed make policy better alone. stream of fines to Brussels: will it be interests the Prime Minister repeatedly Ministers, in turn, need to show that able to manage the radically different mentions: the first big test will be the after a bruising period, they can work agricultural support scheme? climate change summit at the end of effectively with their civil servants. There are question marks too over the year. They also need to reassure, by actions trade policy. The Department for The biggest risk to the civil service as well as words, that they still value a International Trade can be quietly is that ministers who claimed, in non-partisan civil service – or initiate a satisfied that it has succeeded in rolling defiance of the economic assessments, public debate on the alternative. over so many of the trade agreements it that the UK will prosper mightily, deal inherited from our years as an EU or no deal, are disappointed when they Jill Rutter is a Senior Research Fellow m e m b e r. But can it deliver to find that Brexit has not given them at UK in a Changing Europe and a ministers’ expectations, not least when massive new levers to deliver their former Treasury Civil Servant. they still seem unwilling to engage wider agenda. If they are just interested This article first appeared on the with the very real trade-offs and in policy as performance art or symbol, website of UK in a Changing Europe, choices they need to make to have a it may not matter that immediate where a fuller report is available. convincing trade policy? concrete benefits are harder to identify. www.ukandeu.ac.uk.

PAGE 2 eurofacts 9TH APRIL 2021 On going EU payments Jayne Adye or those in doubt about the on successful bids to recoup such money businesses? going payments to the EU the in the past, meaning the project results On top of this potentially wasted Ffollowing will prove worrying. in a net loss for the UK. m o n e y, the mentality of the “Our exit from the European Union S u r e l y, we would be better off Government in handing over this has undoubtedly had some benefits, giving this money directly to UK money worries me. It sets a dangerous one of the most prominent of these is researchers, rather than adding in the precedent of the UK participating in the massive monetary savings made middleman of the EU? Plus, if we did and contributing significantly to by ending our EU membership so, this money would come without the European Union projects with no contributions. On average, this will loaded strings attached by Brussels. guarantee of any future access, along equate to £11 billion every year – even The Copernicus programme is with a long list of potential demands after we deduct the money still going another branch of the EU space for regulatory alignment. W h i l e to the EU as part of the so-called research programme and is aimed at Horizon and Copernicus do not place ‘Divorce Bill’ for the next 60 years! making environmental observations of any requirements on the UK to follow H o w e v e r, right now because of the Earth and identification of falling EU laws and rulings from the Government decision-making – debris. These are programmes it makes European Court of Justice at the without doubt influenced by advisors some sense for the UK to continue to moment, all it would take is for from within the heavily Remain-biased participate in, because it has little to do Ministers to sign up to one too many Civil Service – these monetary savings with the EU political machinery which associations with the EU – especially are being eaten into through the restricts national sovereignty. T h i s , when it comes to the European participation of the in however, does not excuse the cost, Defence Fund – and we would find various European Union programmes. estimated to be £710 million over 7 ourselves in a situation where all the As it stands the UK is set to contribute years. This is a figure which pales in work done to get Britain out of the to a number of these, with two major comparison to the cost of Horizon and control of the EU would have been projects standing out: previous EU space research projects, undone. The EU Horizon research including the Galileo navigation The Government must start to be programme – which includes the EU’s satellite, into which the UK invested clear and upfront with the British European Defence Fund; more than £1.4 billion. people about the continued vast sums The Copernicus Earth Observation H o w e v e r, just as with Galileo – of money flowing from UK taxpayers programme. which we are no longer allowed to straight into the EU’s pockets. With When it comes to the Horizon access - the UK’s position in these extreme economic hardship on the programme, which allocates funding projects is not secure on an ongoing horizon, every single pound we have for military and civilian scientific basis at the end of the 7 years of our available should be focused on research, the amount we pay into funding. This means the UK is yet improving the lives of the Great British Brussels is based on our GDP – again pouring vast amounts of money Public and supporting UK businesses, meaning if we succeed post-Brexit we into the EU with no certainty we will instead of sending more and more will end up sending MORE money to ever receive any of the benefits. At any money to the EU for what are, in effect, Brussels. Even as it stands, however, point, if the EU believes the UK is not glorified vanity projects for the we are estimated to be on the hook for meeting its expectations as set out in Commissioners in Brussels.” 18% of the total funding, which the new UK-EU Trade and Co- amounts to around £15.2 billion spread operation Agreement, it has the right to Jayne Adye a Eurosceptic activist has across 7 years. restrict our access to these research been the Director of cro s s - p a r t y This is an exorbitant amount of projects. grassroots Eurosceptic campaign Get money, and while UK firms are able to Therefore, I ask again, surely this is Britain Out, since its launch in July bid for funding from Horizon, we have money which would be better spent 2012 and before with other never been able to receive enough directly on UK interests and UK Eurosceptic campaigns. The EU agency that eats well ccording to an article in the on dinners at events to celebrate itself. taxpayers’ money at a restaurant in Aeuobserver (March 23rd), the The euobserver had earlier this year 2015. EU’s border agency Frontex is refusing revealed that the warsaw-based agency It must be good to be a member of to release details on how much it spent spent 94,00 euros of European Frontex at least you eat well! eurofacts 9TH APRIL 2021 PAGE 3 The Northern Ireland Protocol he following is the conclusions Recommendations with regard to their scope and duration found in the European Research The UK can and should act in the to what is strictly necessary in order to TGroup report of February 2021 interests of Northern Ireland. In order remedy the situation. Priority shall be entitled; to act UK law must be changed to give given to such measures as will least the Government the power to disapply disturb the functioning of this Protocol. Re-uniting the Kingdom: the NIP and implement an alternative. 2) If a safeguard measure taken by How and why to replace the It is vital therefore that: the Union or the United Kingdom, as Northern Ireland Protocol the case may be, in accordance with 1) The Government should notify paragraph (1) creates an imbalance “The Northern Ireland Protocol the EU under A r ticle 16 that it between the rights and obligations poses an ongoing challenge to the intends to redress the trade diversion under this Protocol, the Union or the UK’s constitutional settlement as well and societal pressures by legislating. United Kingdom, as the case may be, as the economic wellbeing of the 2) The Government should work may take such proportionate re- people of Northern Ireland. It is a on a draft Bill to ensure free trade balancing measures as are strictly challenge that cannot be avoided. within the UK, restoring the UK’s necessary to remedy the imbalance. While with goodwill the UK and EU internal market as set out in 1801. Priority shall be given to such could have worked on alternatives and Parliament has the sovereign power measures as will least disturb the replacements either during the as reaffirmed in section thirty functioning of this Protocol. negotiation of the Trade and eight of the European Union 3) Safeguard and re-balancing Cooperation Agreement or afterwards, (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020. measures taken in accordance with this has not happened, at least to date. 3) The Government should extend paragraphs (1) & (2) shall be governed Northern Ireland is fully integrated a generous offer to help the EU meet by the procedures set out in Annex 7 to into the GB supply chain with 63% of its stated concerns. An answer to this this Protocol. its imports coming from GB and much is Mutual Enforcement of the of the remainder being sourced via GB. North/South border by the UK and In Annex 7, Procedures referred Any border in the Irish Sea would EU to ensure that exporters abide by to in Article 16(3) impose a cost on Northern Ireland. the rules of their counter-party.” Far from seeking to minimise the 1) Where the Union or the United impact on Northern Ireland the EU has As for Article 16 itself, it is covered in Kingdom is considering taking shown its intention to demand full section 5 of the report. safeguard measures under Article 16(1) implementation and has shown no “Article 16 of the NIP the so called of this Protocol, it shall, without delay, appetite for flexibility or changing one “safeguards” Article is designed as a notify the Union or the United word of its own customs law. safety valve in exceptional Kingdom, as the case may be, through The EU’s intention to use Article 16 circumstances allowing the EU or UK the Joint Committee and shall provide itself has brought the issue to a head. to neutralise the effect of the NIP. all relevant information. By seeking to override the NIP to block These circumstances in which this is 2) The Union and the United the importation of vaccines into possible are if there are “s e r i o u s Kingdom shall immediately enter into Northern Ireland and Great Britain the economic, societal or environmental consultations in the Joint Committee EU has shaken confidence in its difficulties that are liable to persist, or with a view to finding a commonly previously avowed respect for the to diversion of trade.” acceptable solution. provisions of the Belfast/Good Friday If these circumstances exist either 3) The Union or the United Agreement. party may invoke the Article as set out Kingdom, as the case may be, may not The Northern Ireland Protocol was below. take safeguard measures until 1 month not intended to be permanent; it was has elapsed after the date of the product of its circumstances and is Article 16 Safeguards notification under point 1, unless the now imposing real economic and (Emphasis added) consultation procedure under point 2 constitutional stress on Northern has been concluded before the Ireland. The UK government must act 1) If the application of this Protocol expiration of the state limit. When and has the legal justification to act leads to serious economic, societal or exceptional circumstances requiring already contained within the NIP. environmental difficulties that are immediate action exclude prior Fortunately, there are alternatives to liable to persist, or to diversion of examination, the Union or t h e the NIP that should be acceptable to the t r a d e , the Union or the United United Kingdom, as the case may be, EU, were it acting in good faith. Kingdom may unilaterally take may apply forthwith the protective Foremost among these is the proposal appropriate safeguard measures. Such m e a s u res strictly necessary to for ‘mutual enforcement’. safeguard measures shall be restricted remedy the situation.

PAGE 4 eurofacts 9TH APRIL2021 The Northern Ireland Protocol 4) The Union or the United from the date of their adoption with a 6) Points 1 to 5 shall apply, mutatis Kingdom, as the case may be, shall, view to their abolition before the date m u t a n d i s, to re-balancing measures without delay, notify the measures of expiry envisaged, or to the referred to in Article 16(2) of this taken to the Joint Committee and shall limitation of their scope of application. Protocol.” provide all relevant information. The Union or the United Kingdom, as 5) The safeguard measures taken the case may be, may at any time The full report is available on the shall be the subject of consultations in request the Joint Committee to review Bruges Group website. the Joint Committee every 3 months such measures. www.brugesgroup.com Crowd funding hose opposed to the NI Agreement the Democratic Unionist Party Arlene the UK constitution and that the Good Thave launched a crowd funding Foster MLA, Former Labour Minister Friday or Belfast Agreement (GFA) coalition of pro-Union supporters, led Baroness Hoey and Former First does not prohibit a border on the island by Brexit-watch Ben Habib, as they Minister of Northern Ireland the Lord of Ireland, while the Act of Union and commence legal proceedings against Trimble. GFA require the people of Northern the Northern Ireland Protocol. Those involved are committed to Ireland to be treated on an equal Included are the leader of the Ulster defend the integrity of the UK and Unionist Party Dr Steve Aitken OBE ensure unfettered trade across all parts footing with all British citizens. MLA, leader of the Tr a d i t i o n a l of the Union, thereby protecting the Unionist Vo i c e QC country’s Internal Market. Contact details: M L A , Current First Minister o f They also claim the Northern www. crowdjustice .com/case/ Northern Ireland and leader of Ireland Protocol is a serious breach of defending-the-union-of-the-UK/ The Trade and Cooperation Agreement Caroline Bell he conclusion formed by Caroline in Brussels. It would be a fatal error. suppliers, accelerate the repeal of EU TBell regarding the yet unratified Global Britain has never been more law to avoid getting caught in a Trade and Cooperation A g r e e m e n t important, and the same creativity, regulatory nightmare, and focus on (TCA) makes uncomfortable reading. drive and grittiness which has allowed forging smart Britannia, quick to seize The question she asks is this; the UK to develop and roll out Covid new technological opportunities in the Is the unratified TCA the EU’s new vaccines at lightning speed now need digital age. Some landmark measures weapon in the Brexit war against to be deployed in all our dealings with would be welcome, like the abolition Britain? the EU. Defined goals, a clear strategy of VAT, which is a burdensome and Her conclusion is; and a rigorous timetable are required to complicated EU tax governed by reams “It would be unwise to believe that manage the lumbering EU behemoth. of retained EU law. A simpler UK at some point the EU will end up on the Some obvious “don’ts” include: not goods and services tax to kickstart the same page as the UK, wanting the allowing the EU to set the agenda or economy post-Covid would be a same things from the TCA – free trade keep extending talks and the T C A powerful signal that we intend to take and friendly cooperation between ratification timetable, not enforcing advantage of Brexit to do things faster equals. The deal has already served a totally unnecessary checks on goods and better. useful purpose, in that it got us past the sold within our own internal market And of course, we should always be fateful 1st January with no major (from GB to Northern Ireland), not ready to cut and run if the TCA proves hiccups and has shown quite starkly mirroring new EU rules, and not giving to be more trouble than it’s worth. where our future problems lie. That an inch on our core interests. We When and if that should prove an may indeed be as good as it ever gets. should be prepared to use Nuclear attractive option will depend on how As the foundation for a lasting Options to protect them if necessary, the EU conducts itself in the next few economic partnership, the odds are not and take specific retaliatory measures months. looking great. If we now agree to the when the EU breaches its own laws kind of sequenced negotiations the EU and the terms of the T C A t o Caroline Bell is a civil servant and a loves, we will never get out of the disadvantage British businesses. regular contributor to BFB. trenches – and more importantly, we We should redouble our efforts to may delay doing things we need to do sign trade deals with other countries so This article was first reported on the elsewhere, hoping for a breakthrough we have alternative markets and www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk website. eurofacts 9TH APRIL 2021 PAGE 5 LETTERS Tel: 08456 120 175 email: [email protected]

Immigration control the Astrazeneca vaccine based on leader. Furthermore she now has said nothing more than the thoughts of a that should the SNP win the election Dear Sir, few spokespersons has lead to a serious they will double the Scottish Child I like many must have been delighted slow down of the EU members Payment, currently £10 per week to to hear that at last the UK government vaccination programme. Added to that, low income families. Furthermore, are trying to control illegal it has created a distrust in the vaccine Sturgeon has told the SNP campaign immigration. itself, leading to reduced numbers of conference that this would eventually The new rules recently announced EU citizens willing to have the extend to under-16s, reaching 170,000 for those seeking asylum will at last vaccine. This could well increase the children. Similar policies have also make it more difficult for refuges numbers of deaths and serious health been made by and the entering illegally to stay in the UK. problems for hospitals throughout the Greens, while other parties have Priti Petal the UK Home Secretary EU. focussed on early years education. has said, that “under our new plan for SALLY DAVIS Meanwhile, the immigration, if people arrive illegally, Bristol former SNP leader has started a new they will no longer have the same pro-independence party “Alba” to entitlements as those who arrive Flying the Union flag contest the Holyrod parliamentary legally, and it will be harder for them to elections. stay”. Dear Sir, How many SNP members will join This is good news and hopefully Good news for those like me who are the new party only time will tell, but it will make those who pay the traffickers proud of our flag. could well change the face of Scottish to get them illegally into the UK a The UK’s culture secretary Oliver politics after May. much less popular method. Some will Dowden has described the Union flag Other parties have described Mr still try but the government must as “a proud reminder of our history and Salmond as “discredited” and enforce these new rules. the ties that bind us”. questioned his suitability for public Those who enter the UK legally Therefore, the culture department office. I could say the same about should always have priority over those has given new guidance that all . who enter illegally and every effort government buildings to fly the Union EDITH MACKENZIE should be used to return illegal flag every day. Currently flags are only Edinburgh immigrants. required to be flown on certain days Only by returning these illegal such as the Queen’s birthday. Opportunities for trade immigrants will others release that they All government buildings in are wasting their time, money and England, Wales and Scotland will now Dear Sir, often their lives by using illegal means. fly the Union flag every day. Why so many politicians are still STEPHEN RICHARDS Sadly at present government lamenting the UK’s exit from the EU, Brighton buildings in Northern Ireland are they would be better employed by covered by a separate law. supporting the Secretary of State for Lessons from Covid MR SAUNDERS International Trade Lizz Truss in her West Midlands moves to find new trade opportunities Dear Sir, in the wider world. If any lessons from Covid are to be How to get re-elected The outdated idea that the economic learned the one that stands out is that future of the UK is intrinsically locked only nation governments can deal with Dear Sir, into the failing EU is untrue. health outbreaks in their country. I should have been surprised by Nicola There is one very large area that The European Commission has Sturgeon suddenly announcing a 4% appears to be overlooked, the African show quite clearly that a single pay rise for nurses just hours before the continent that consists of 55 individual response for such outbreaks is not May election time scale would have countries, many of which already have workable in all countries. All nations prevented such actions. formed Free Trade Agreements with have very different cultural values and H o w e v e r, the action of Nicola one another. The growing population these can only be addressed by the Sturgeon the First Minister for of these countries is a good place to national parliaments that they have Scotland and leader of the SNP for her start. elected to govern them. action is typical of her cunning ways to SIMON COLE The outrageous comments regarding stay in office and appear a caring Leicestershire

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