Braverman: Remainer Civil Servants Resist Brexit Plans

The attorney general says reforms are blocked by officials ‘time and time again’

- Adam Forrest

Civil servants are blocking the government’s efforts to cut EU legislation after Brexit because they hold a “Remain bias”, attorney general Suella Braverman has claimed. The cabinet minister said she had battled with offiials who are unable “to conceive of the possibility of life outside of the EU”.

“Some of the biggest battles you face as a minister are, in the nicest possible way, with Whitehall and internally with civil servants, as opposed to your political battles in the chamber,” said Ms Braverman. The government’s chief law offier – who campaigned for the Leave vote during the Brexit referendum – said the resistance to post-Brexit reforms was “something I didn’t expect”.