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Transition agreement hailed as a breakthrough but IfG warns that issues, including resolving the Irish border, remain

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham confirms warrant has been served on UK company

Jonathan Slater named civil service integrity champion and issues reminders on how to maintain integrity

Commons committee calls for clarification on rules and processes that will allow frictionless border arrangements to continue

Ministerial talks also lead to hope of breakthrough on agreement on devolved powers as part of EU exit

Total cost of government preparation for Brexit likely as high as £2bn in the current and next financial year, according to IfG analysis

Devolved administration perm sec reveals talks as Cabinet Office outlines powers set to be initially retained in Whitehall after Brexit

Prospect calls on members to urge their MPs to sign EDM condemning attacks on public service

Former international trade permanent secretary Martin Donnelly to give speech undermining Brexit vision of Liam Fox 

Hundreds mourn the former Treasury solicitor described as “screamingly funny”, a pioneer and an inspirational leader

Cabinet Office minister to promise vast majority of powers returning from Brussels will start off in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast – not Whitehall

Theresa May will set out her confirmed Brexit strategy next week following talks between top ministers and senior officials 

Report suggests UK’s top negotiator is increasingly frustrated at being sidelined in Brexit talks

Government insists agreed transition will have an end date, ahead of a Brexit war Cabinet meeting in Chequers 

Sacked first secretary of state calls for publication of Brexit analysis as more MPs accuse the Treasury of blocking leave plans

As cross-party power-sharing talks collapse, decisions made by senior officials in absence of an executive are challenged in Belfast High Court 

Details of additional Brexit funding also reveal £1m transfer of funds following Oliver Robbins’s move to the Cabinet Office

New unit set up in department to tackle safeguarding across the aid sector

Call for changes to insolvency rules to make it easier for companies to recover from financial difficulties

Brexit minister accused civil servants of undermining EU exit after economic analysis of EU exit leaked

Auditor general Amyas Morse confirms scrutiny plans following request from Treasury committee chair Nicky Morgan

MPs ‘disappointed’ with government rejection of recommendations for extra safeguards to prevent sidelining of ministers in key decisions 

Former infrastructure tsar and Cabinet minister says Brexit is sidelining other issues and claims half of civil servants believe government policy is ‘trashing the national interest’

Tax department issues unprecedented statement after Cabinet ministers question tax decisions for Brexit-backing donors