Brexit has not only failed to deliver on its promise of reducing immigration and controlling borders, but it has also made the immigration issue worse and more difficult to manage. The government’s chaotic and ineffective immigration policies, such as the Rwanda policy, have only added to the problem.
Sir Ivan Rogers: the real reasons for a Brexit dynamite move by "the most incompetent government", what Truss and Frost really want and the problem of rejoining the EU Single Market
16/06/2022
"This NI bill looks very, very bad. ... It's obviously illegal. Furthermore, you clearly haven't exhausted the provisions of Art. 16, because you haven't invoked Art. 16. ... The problem with that in Brussels they know that the British would not respect the judgement of the courts..."
Ivan Rogers says plan by ‘dishonest’ government to override Northern Ireland protocol may cause trade war.
The UK's former permanent representative to the EU suggests that post-Brexit trade deals with New Zealand and Australia contribute little to the country's finances.
Sir Ivan Rogers: life after Brexit
19/02/2021
Sir Ivan Rogers, former UK permanent representative to the EU, spoke yesterday of his optimism that the UK will eventually seek a closer relationship with the EU again. But he maintained this is not on the government’s agenda at all at the moment. Instead, he foresees a “bumpy” short-term future of “spiky” relationships.
Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, says prime minister will think ‘history was going his way’ if Donald Trump is re-elected
The outcome being pursued by the prime minister in the Brexit trade talks will not avoid costly friction at the border.
Boris Johnson trade deal plan little better than no-deal Brexit, UK’s former ambassador to EU warns
12/03/2020
Ivan Rogers says some in Downing Street appear to be ‘misjudging’ negotiations.
A former UK ambassador to the EU has stated that the biggest crisis in the UK's attempts to leave the European Union is still a year away. / Sir Ivan Rogers, who was the senior civil servant dealing with Brexit after the EU referendum until his resignation in 2017, argued that the UK has been mired in a "political shambles" since the 2016 vote.
Boris Johnson faces 'biggest Brexit crisis' yet after election and is deceiving voters, former ambassador to the EU warns
26/11/2019
Sir Ivan Rogers condemns 'diplomatic amateurism' that will lead to hugely damaging trade deal – or a crash-out Brexit in a year. / Boris Johnson is deceiving voters by claiming he will “get Brexit done” quickly and hiding the “biggest crisis” yet to come, a former ambassador to the EU is warning.
Ex-EU ambassador says PM’s ‘strategy errors’ will make good trade deal harder to achieve.
Boris Johnson’s claims he will get Brexit done are “diplomatic amateurism” and his deal will be even harder to achieve than Theresa May’s, a former ambassador to the EU has warned.
The U.K.’s former ambassador to the European Union blasted the “denial, delusion-mongering and deception” in British politics, which he predicts is leading the country to a damaging no-deal Brexit.
Britain is being led to a no-deal Brexit by a political elite “which has great difficulties discerning and telling the truth”, the UK’s former ambassador to the EU has said, in a withering assessment of the Conservative candidates vying to be prime minister.
Sir Ivan Rogers says EU could 'pull the plug' on talks. / The desire of Tory leadership candidates to appeal to the party’s Brexiteer grassroots could “wreck” any chance of the UK securing a trade deal with the EU, the former British ambassador to Brussels has warned.
UK government doesn't understand how EU works, says its former ambassador to Brussels Ivan Rogers
04/03/2019
The government does not understand how the EU works and so embarks on negotiating strategies that are doomed to fail, Britain’s former ambassador to Brussels has said.
In departing email, Rogers calls on his staff ‘to continue to challenge ill-founded arguments ... and never be afraid to speak the truth to those in power’
Former UK ambassador Ivan Rogers says PM’s negotiating strategy was doomed to fail
Theresa May's Brexit plan for access to single market for specific UK sectors 'not on offer', Sir Ivan Rogers tells MPs
22/02/2017
UK's former ambassador to EU said any free trade deal with the bloc would have to be ‘the biggest ever’
Sir Ivan Rogers, who quit as British ambassador to EU, says UK could be left in legal void if it leaves without deal
MPs In Denial On Brexit Must 'Look Reality In The Eye', Says UK's Former EU Ambassador Sir Ivan Rogers
22/01/2019
Sir Ivan Rogers said extending Article 50 is "not a given" and extreme Leavers and Remainers were pushing UK to cliff edge.
Theresa May has been accused of failing to be honest with the public about Brexit by the UK’s former ambassador to the European Union, who warned that “fantasies and delusions on all sides” risk plunging the UK into a democratic crisis.