Government Insiders: Whitehall Source and Brexit Outcomes

government insiders: Government insiders said they knew of examples of officials usually dealing with schools and hospitals who were now redeployed to work on farming and fishing as a result of the scramble to prepare for all Brexit outcomes, including no deal, according to The Guardian. It's a real worry now that things are being held up and not happening, said one senior Whitehall source. Ministers' priority programmes have fallen victim to re-prioritisation according to internal government warnings seen by the Observer. We are really starting to see it as the Brexit process drags on and on. The government's plans for resolving the crisis in social care and a review of university finance are among the major policy proposals that are said to have been held up by Brexit, while many other areas have suffered due to the lack of parliamentary time and political instability. A memo to a senior minister, said In the context of ongoing cross-government re-prioritisation exercises, departments have not yet been able to resource the necessary cross-government team to deliver the work. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.