Lord Kerr, who has served as an ambassador both to the US and EU for the UK government, was a panellist for a discussion hosted by the Institute for Government on Thursday morning, which Business Insider attended.
Talking about Brexit, Lord Kerr said "evidence-based" policy-making has been abandoned and replaced by policy-making based on emotion and appeasing the will of the public majority.
"For governments, it would be good to get back evidence-based policy," Kerr said.
"But in this country that's very difficult at the moment as Whitehall is charged with delivering a policy (Brexit) it doesn't actually believe in — and the evidence suggests it is right not to believe in.
"I can't think of an example like Brexit where the government was working to a single aim that so few people in government actually believe in."
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