{"id":33952,"date":"2016-07-05T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=33952"},"modified":"2016-07-05T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:54:25","slug":"omg-ey-and-kpmg-to-negotiate-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/05\/omg-ey-and-kpmg-to-negotiate-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG: EY and KPMG to negotiate Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7ccfd858-41e0-11e6-b22f-79eb4891c97d.html#ixzz4DWBW99mX\">to the FT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britain is turning to the private sector to prepare for Brexit, seeking to second consultants to boost a civil service with almost no experience of complex trade negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Jeremy Heywood, the country\u2019s top civil servant, has held talks with companies including accountants EY and KPMG, and the consultants McKinsey, as he prepares for a negotiation with Brussels described by outgoing prime minister David Cameron as \u201cthe most important task the British civil service has undertaken in decades\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"insideArticleShare\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Words fail me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How did we get to this sorry state?<\/p>\n<p>Before answering, note this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The senior partner of a leading London-based law firm said: \u201cWe\u2019ve got super-smart people who understand the regulatory framework who will be intensely valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The companies told Sir Jeremy that their staff were already stretched helping clients deal with the fallout of Brexit and that while they want to help, it will come at a substantial price to the taxpayer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then weep.<\/p>\n<p>And remember that this is the price of taking back control from the elite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the FT: Britain is turning to the private sector to prepare for Brexit, seeking to second consultants to boost a civil service with<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/05\/omg-ey-and-kpmg-to-negotiate-brexit\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}