From Broke To Brexit Britain’s Lost Decade
Michael Burton outlines how the first led to the second, assisted by a rare confluence of other, often unrelated, social and political factors that delivered the shock Leave verdict in the EU referendum of 2016. These included the longstanding grievances of voters in former industrial areas feeling...
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The undercurrents
- Chapter 1 From boom to bust
- Chapter 2 ‘What has the EU ever done for us?’
- Chapter 3 The immigration debate
- Chapter 4 Globalism and ‘the left behind’. Chapter 5 The great faultline: Europe and the Conservatives
- Part II: The catalysts
- Chapter 6: Austerity
- Chapter 7 Cameron opts for a referendum
- Chapter 8 Pulling up the drawbridge
- Chapter 9 The disrupters
- Chapter 10 The recovery that wasn’t
- Chapter 11 Labour turns to populism
- Chapter 12 Dress rehearsal for the referendum
- Part III: The brave new world
- Chapter 13 Road map to the referendum
- Chapter 14 The referendum
- Chapter 15 The merry months of May
- Chapter 16: The gamble that failed
- Chapter 17 Brexit unravels
- Chapter 18 Boris and the Brexiteers
- Chapter 19 Aftermath