Brexit and the 2019 General Election

The article examines two different interpretations of the British general election in 2019. One claims that electoral behaviour was largely driven by views about whether the UK should deliver on the vote of the 2016 referendum to leave the EU. Another claims that while such views counted for some vo...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Kavanagh, Dennis
التنسيق: Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:Anglais
منشور في: Revue française de civilisation britannique 2022
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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الملخص:The article examines two different interpretations of the British general election in 2019. One claims that electoral behaviour was largely driven by views about whether the UK should deliver on the vote of the 2016 referendum to leave the EU. Another claims that while such views counted for some voters the real significance of the result was to reinforce electoral trends that had been at work for some years. In the longer run the second interpretation is likely to be more convincing.