New @NAOorguk report on @DefraGovUK preparations for #brexit is complimentary on progress made nao.org.uk/wp-content/upl… @NAOorguk @DefraGovUK but even though they are doing well it illustrates the scale of the task the dept faces - even with its extra 1300 people

new @timd_IFG @ThimontJack @lewisalloyd report sets out how EU cooperation and law enforcement has evolved over the last 25 years instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/n… it shows that we are big net exporters of alleged criminals to other EU member states

I have a rule never to tweet about football because its so inferior to tennis and cricket BUT........... intriguing football and #brexit story in today's @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/… @Telegraph So football wants an exemption from new migration regime for EU nationals.. I hope that special pleading is rejected.

new @instituteforgov report sets out basic scenarios for the autumn.

key points. Defaults in the system are for no deal.

https://twitter.com/instituteforgov/status/1031405465714876416

@instituteforgov that is because of article 50 and the EU withdrawal act. For something else to happen govt needs a deal with the EU AND a Parliamentary majority to agree it

feelings for all the civil servants having to prepare multiple business readiness notices if @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/… has it right @Telegraph the EU has produced 67 notices.. might PM have glanced down at her briefing, seen that figure and said we're doing that too.. almost always cock-up rather than conspiracy

was just toying with the idea of a #brexit edition of #pointless - to test how much the 100 people know about the EU.. then I watched an ancient #pointlesscelebrities with @OwenJones84 @OwenJones84 final round Owen and partner chsoe Europe - and faced a skilltester about capitals of EU countries who used the euro..they were good on capitals, less so on euro users

Wtaching #marrshow - here is @instituteforgov on what preparations for no deal need to look like instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/preparing… @instituteforgov Andrew Marr is completely right that we don't know what would happen to UK citizens in EU -- what's the planning - one of the questions to answer

so @ConHome is publishing the DD draft white paper in parallel to the govt's effort conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2… Key to remember that either one needs to pass these tests instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/six-tests… @ConHome anything that assumed general mutual recognition was, for reasons set out in our report Trade After Brexit, very unlikely to fly instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/t…

so May took personal control of the negotiations last September when Olly Robbins moved to the Cabinet Office.. DD has resented that for ages..

https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1016092489994964992

here's what we said in September instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/brexit-ol…

so if you want to know more about what this court might look like some essential reading from @instituteforgov - first - options for dispute resolution instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/d…

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1014156050730274817

@instituteforgov second, a report of our event with EFTA court president by @lewisalloyd instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/could-uk-…

Hi Cabinet – so next week you finally get let into #brexit decision-making. So here is your essential pre-read from @instituteforgov. @instituteforgov First up, our report on frictionless trade – why its impossible to deliver the “exact same benefits” of the Single market and the Customs Union outside them – and why it matters to businesses with cross-border supply chains. instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/f…

the last week's Parliamentary #brexit proceedings are called "ping pong" instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/par… - but they actually look more like a grand slam tennis match. spectators want an exciting five-setter... think Federer v Nadal in Wimbledon 2008 - and many are hoping for an upset in which the underdog wins

Govt seems to be paying price for never adjusting to post-election Parliamentary #brexit reality. PM's aim was to force her preferred outcome (whatever it is) through - rather than test where the votes are

Tony Meggs from the Infrastructure Projects Authority wrote a very helpful blog in March on the 6 sins of project failure quarterly.blog.gov.uk/2018/03/28/cro… so in @instituteforgov Preparing Brexit report we thought we might see how #brexit stacked up as a project instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/p…

Preparing Brexit is like an Olympics when you don;t know the year, the location or whether its the summer or winter games. And you are bidding while preparing...new @instituteforgov report explains instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/… and the Olympics are easy - people have laid it on many times before.. there is a travelling group of experts. #Brexit is uncharterd territory

shocking admissions by Liam Fox on @BBCR4today that govt is only now assembling evidence for its two customs options. Remember it put out its future partnership paper on customs in August last year gov.uk/government/pub… did MInisters not ask before they signed off that paper how the options might work and what their costs might be...?

Very frustrating interviews on @BBCR4Today this morning on Amber Rudd and #windrush. Shows how hard it is to make accountability work in the UK system - @instituteforgov on this instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/a… Rudd linked the treatment of #windrush to the culture of the Home Office – failing to look at people. (That’s the reason why she is now the victim of leaks – not right but not surprising).