MPs demand to see civil servant who wrote a blueprint for Brexit

MPs insisted on Monday that a civil servant who wrote a prize-winning essay on how Britain could leave the European Union should address a committee in parliament. Parliament's Treasury Committee has repeatedly summoned Iain Mansfield, an official at the business ministry, but he and the government have turned down the request, citing rules that say civil servants should be politically neutral. Mansfield won 100,000 euros (£77,800) in 2014 from the Institute for Economic Affairs, a free-ma