Foreign Affairs

Whitehall official warns accelerated timetable could mean 'minimum scrutiny for vital negotiation documents'

Department has revealed advert for perm sec post received 111 applications

Comments come amid reports the government could be prepared to pay £36bn Brexit divorce bill to settle its financial commitments to the EU

Department begins recruiting for post-Brexit arm’s length body

Family-focused pilot scheme will allow staff to return to the UK every weekend

George Bridges reflects on the life of his uncle, who was son of Second World War-era cabinet secretary Edward Bridges

Paul Lincoln to lead immigration and customs-control body from September

Crawford Falconer to advise on post-Brexit deals and lead development of trade profession across the civil service

Veteran negotiator Jonathan Powell has had a hand in some of the most important deals in the UK’s recent history. He offers some Brexit wisdom to John Ashmore

Proposal would create a network comprising nine trade commissioners across the world to drum up business for the UK after Brexit

Department's director general for policy and global programmes Nick Dyer will step up to top job

Theresa May to urge US president Donald Trump to keep intelligence and security information secure

Terrorism threat level raised to critical after COBRA meeting

Think tank warns post-Brexit trade deals will require a step-change in Whitehall culture with the creation of a new “trade negotiator” profession as a priority

Union calls on ministers to clamp down on “unwarranted, vicious attacks” on public servants in the press

According to reports, the Department for International Development’s top civil servant is set to be appointed as under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs at the UN

 

Letter dismisses government's claim that it meets 2% NATO defence spending target as “accounting deception”

DFID budget set to rise despite cuts elsewhere in Whitehall under spending pledge

William Ury, who has also helped end conflicts in Colombia, the Middle East and the Balkans, has met with officials

Institute for Government report says free movement could stay for several years because new system won’t be ready

Foreign secretary’s mayoral fixer becomes non-executive director at King Charles Street

Rise in spending through aid outsourcing has turned DfID into a commissioning department, say MPs

CIPFA commission will provide advice to ministers as the Article 50 negotiations proceed