If the country isn’t ready for a hard Brexit, the public deserve to know before they’re launched into the abyss, Frances O'Grady and Sir Bob Kerslake write.

New questions have emerged over leaks of confidential UK diplomatic cables criticising Donald Trump after a 19-year-old Brexit activist was revealed to be the person who obtained them.

About 16,000 civil servants have worked on Brexit at estimated cost of £1.5bn to date

Comments made by the Sir Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the US, on the Trump administration have been leaked to pro-Brexit journalist Isabel Oakshott, with key Brexiteers exploiting them to attack the civil service and diplomatic corps and call for the removal of non-Brexit-supporting civil servants.

‘Everybody should be worried about what happens in a no-deal situation,’ Philip Rycroft says in interview with BBC Panorama.

The Institute for Government has warned that the government may never be as ready for a no-deal Brexit as it was when the UK was originally meant to leave the European Union at the end of March.

Magical thinking on a no-deal Brexit doesn’t change the facts for officials like me who are charged with making it happen.

Chancellor sceptical about request as Tories discuss leaving EU without deal. / The home secretary, Sajid Javid, has demanded more than £1bn extra funds for police and border force officials to cope with a no-deal Brexit in a request met with scepticism by the chancellor, Philip Hammond.

Britain's highest-ranking civil servant has issued a doomsday analysis of how the country would be affected by a No Deal Brexit, as MPs yet again failed to break the deadlock last night.

An army of civil servants has been engaged to hide the terrible truth for as long as possible.

Bob Kerslake calls for fresh referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU

Since the UK voted to leave the European Union, civil servants have been working to get the country ready for its departure from the bloc. Beckie Smith examines how Brexit has changed government so far.

Operation Yellowhammer from the inside? It’s like the Office meets the Poseidon Adventure, with a Benny Hill soundtrack.

The former prime minister accused hardline leave campaigners of ‘shouting down anyone with an opposing view’.

Eyjafjallajökull seen as nearest recent example of what civil service could have to cope with.

Ministers say civil service staff from EU countries must pay to register their right to remain in UK.

Civil servants across Whitehall have been instructed to ramp up their emergency no-deal planning, with preparations including hiring staff for a 24-hour “emergency centre”.

The civil service will not be able to implement Brexit while carrying out its other duties after having been shrunk to its smallest size since the second world war, Bob Kerslake, a former Whitehall chief, has warned.

Report finds civil service will need to be told which projects to delay or cancel as it is pushed to limit by Brexit