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Jill Rutter
Senior Fellow
Jill's recent work
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The major parties are desperate to avoid 2024 being a Brexit election
What do the party manifestos tell us about where Brexit could go next?
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A distracted EU may not have much time to reset relations with the UK
The European parliament elections aren't likely to lead to a willingness to renegotiate the Brexit deal.
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Mayoral accountability hangs on divorcing local vote from national trends
The read-across from local contests to the national polls should be dismissed.
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Rishi Sunak would be right to ditch the Retained EU Law Bill
Rishi Sunak seems to be aligning himself with the Brexit supporting practical pragmatists, rather than with the impractical ideologues.
Brexit means borders – as coach travellers at Dover are discovering
Jill Rutter argues taking back control of our borders is why British travellers now face hold ups at Dover.
What should succeed the Office for Tax Simplification?
The experience of the OTS shows the UK needs to widen the public debate on tax.
Pensions tax policy needs to be more than a political football
Successive governments have taken an unserious approach to pensions policy
The Windsor Framework improves the protocol – now the UK and EU need to make it work
Putting the Windsor Framework into practice will need the new spirit of cooperation between the UK and EU to continue.
Suella Braverman should notice the Independent Monitoring Authority’s worth
The government should be grateful to the Independent Monitoring Authority for saving it from a fiasco over EU citizens with pre-settled status
The UK can't improve its Brexit deal without EU agreement
Brexit is back, but Jill Rutter says it is not clear that the EU is in the market for reducing the economic damage caused by the Johnson-Frost deal
Civil service–ministerial relations: time for a reset
Relations between civil servants and ministers require an urgent reset.
Migration policy is an early test for Rishi Sunak's competent government claims
Rishi Sunak is now under pressure to set out a serious response to the latest migration figures.
Rishi Sunak’s three Brexit headaches
Brexit is far from done – and Rishi Sunak's party stands in his way of being able to move on.