The Brexit Cleavages in the 2017 and 2019 General Elections
The EU referendum of 23 June 2016 revealed new cleavages among British voters, based on age, values and geography rather than social class or centre/periphery. This paper examines how the main parties have responded to the challenge in the following general elections in 2017 and 2019, and whether a...
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Observatoire de la société britannique
2021
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| Zusammenfassung: | The EU referendum of 23 June 2016 revealed new cleavages among British voters, based on age, values and geography rather than social class or centre/periphery. This paper examines how the main parties have responded to the challenge in the following general elections in 2017 and 2019, and whether a realignment has taken place along the Brexit faultlines. It argues that both Labour and the Conservatives managed to partially adjust to the challenge and made some electoral gains by reconfiguring their political strategy to adapt to the new electoral environment. But the Conservative party proved better able at attracting the pro-Brexit voters than Labour was with the - divided - Remain voters. It remains to be seen whether these developments will be short-lived or will endure. |
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