The next chapter

摘要

The precise terms of the UK's divorce from the European Union - including exit payments and future terms of trade - will be negotiated over the next two years. But it is clear that Brexit represents both a threat to, and a major opportunity for, local government and its partners. It also necessitates an intense period of legislative scrutiny to ensure that local authorities become a beneficiary, and not the unwitting victim, of powers repatriated to the UK from Brussels.