Boris’s Britain

Portland’s senior staff and advisers examine what a Johnson administration means for businesses, organisations and the public and their external environment.

Mind the Gap: Navigating the EU after Brexit

The outcome of the Brexit process remains highly uncertain, but one thing is clear: one way or another, decisions made in Brussels will continue to impact the reality of doing business in Britain.

Meet the Neighbours

The latest in our series of Brexit publications sees us launch Meet the Neighbours. 

Destination Brexit

Last year Portland blazed a trail with our publication Britain votes leave: what happens next? Eight months on, we bring you Destination Brexit.

The Home Front

The Prime Minister told the Civil Service to do no contingency planning for a Brexit. The Cabinet Secretary confirmed to Parliament that none is being done. This is one of the oddest aspects of a very odd episode in British public life. Of course contingency planning is being done. It would be a dereliction of […]

Can the UK secure free trade outside the EU?

If Britain votes to leave the EU, the country will face some difficult decisions on 24th June. None will be more important than determining the principles behind the UK’s new national external trade policy. It will have to do this with limited policy capability, given that the UK has not conducted any trade negotiations of […]

Life in the Exit Lane

If the British people vote on 23rd June to leave the European Union, we will still be a member of the EU on the morning of 24th June 2016 and, very probably, still members on 24th June 2018. Britain is bound by treaty obligations to her partners in the 27 other Member States of the […]