For the last 18 months the Brexit Civil Society Alliance has travelled the UK listening to concerns from local groups and voluntary organisations about the impacts on their organisations as we face leaving the EU.

The UK is expected to leave the EU in less than four working weeks’ time. Roughly 3 million EU citizens reside in the UK. These two facts are not unrelated.

As unlikely as it looks at the moment, was Parliament to agree to the Brexit deal the government would then have to bring forward primary legislation to give effect to it in domestic law- that would be the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill.

The long-awaited Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (‘the Bill’), the legislation making provision for a post-Brexit immigration system, is finally before Parliament

As the drama and politics continue to swirl around Brexit, the government is using domestic Brexit legislation as the perfect opportunity to seize unfettered law making powers.

The Supreme Court this week rejected an appeal by the Government against a Scottish ruling which asked the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) to look at whether the UK can reverse the Brexit clause.

The next 4 months are crucial although the reality is that it is the next 4 weeks that will determine so much.

An important question remains as yet unanswered: what kind of future UK-EU relationship will we be looking forward to at the end of 2020?

The last week or so has seen a new act of political theatre in the play that is Brexit. Whilst nearly three quarters of a million were marching for a people's vote in London on the 20th October, speculation behind some closed Tory doors was that this week we will see a leadership challenge