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The new Cumming’s Government

Brian LeggettJanuary 20, 2020

The Brexit debate, Part 1, is over, and the inevitable will happen on the 31st January next when the UK formally leaves the European Union. The UK will probably seek a Canada Style deal with differences. The clever Mr Olly Robbins, the UK civil servant who negotiated Mrs May’s deal, has left the civil service […]

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Now it’s SIR Ollie!

Brian LeggettSeptember 13, 2019

The Times of London told us on Friday, 13 September that Ollie Robbins, now Sir Oliver Robbins, who led the official talks on Mrs May’s deal, is alive and well in his Whitehall office. Indeed, it seems that Boris Johnson wants him included in his current team negotiating with the EU. Strange, you think, why […]

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Can Mr Johnson invent an acceptable fudge?

Brian LeggettAugust 27, 2019

Now that Ollie Robbins, the British civil servant and author of Mrs. May’s Brexit deal, has gone into self exile, the Boris Johnson show is well on the road. What will happen on Halloween is the biggest issue in European politics now. For sure the Brexit deal will be a fudge of some kind, but […]

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Brian Leggett is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations. His areas of interest include the use of persuasion (rhetoric) and dialectic in the management process; the practical application of persuasion and dialectic in management situations; and the connection between leadership and communication.

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