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Ivan to break free

CIVIL servants mostly operate behind the scenes and off camera. Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain’s permanent representative to the European Union since November 2013, fits the bill nicely. Yet his announcement on January 3rd that he was leaving early became big news because of what it showed about the government’s unreadiness for Brexit negotiations.

Sir Ivan, a former Treasury and EU official, knows everything there is to know about how Brussels works. He was David Cameron’s chief adviser on Europe. He got to know Theresa May when, as home secretary, she engaged in tortuous talks over Britain’s opt-out from EU policies on justice and home affairs. But he has long been faulted by Eurosceptics as too gloomy over Brexit. In December he was pilloried for reporting that it could take ten years to negotiate and ratify a trade deal with the EU. Yet as Sir Ivan put it this week, free trade “does not just happen when it is not thwarted by authorities.” Experience shows that such deals can indeed take years to agree.

His other purported sin came during Mr Cameron’s attempted renegotiation of...Continue reading

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