Suzannah Brecknell

This issue brings a special focus on digital transformation, including an exclusive interview with DSIT perm sec Emran Mian, along with a Q&A with pensions recovery chief Angela MacDonald, the BVI governor and much more With a focus on digital transformation, the summer 2026 issue of Civil Service World features an exclusive interview with Department of Science, Innovation and Technology permanent secretary Emran Mian and two of his directors general.

If a week is a long time in politics, what is a decade in Brexit? It has now been 10 especially long years since Britain voted to leave the European Union, an act that began a process of departure that took several years to formally complete and is arguably still ongoing. The issue’s divisiveness is so potent that some may not yet be ready to reflect on it as history.

In June 2016, on the day after the UK voted to leave the European Union, prominent Brexiteer and veteran select committee chair Sir Bernard Jenkin met the then-cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood. “I teased him as he bounced in with a big smile, as he always did,” Jenkin recalled several years later.