Brexit, no exit : why (in the end) Britain won't leave Europe / Denis MacShane.
By: MacShane, Denis [author.]
.Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2017Description: xxii, 298 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784538781.Other title: Why in the end Britain won't leave Europe.Subject(s): European Union -- Great Britain | European Union -- Membership | Referendum -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century | Great Britain -- Relations -- European Union countries | European Union countries -- Relations -- Great BritainDDC classification: 341.24220941 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 341.24220941 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 014805 |
Part one: the impact of Brexit -- 1. The Brexit revolution -- 2. Brexit and Trump: towards a new world disorder? -- 3. Brexit: a never-ending saga -- 4. Nationalist identitarianism -- 5. Closing frontiers -- 6. Theresa May: how much Brexit does she really want? -- 7. Europe reacts -- Part two: why Brexit happened -- 8. The establishment was warned Brexit would happen but buried its head in the sand -- 9. The Brexit generation -- 10. The leavers -- 11. The campaign -- 12. Labour fails to make an impact before, during and after -- 13. The BBC's disdain for Europe won it for Brexit -- Part three: Brexit in the channel: Britain cut off -- 14. Business hates Brexit but stays silent -- 15. Fixing an exit: trade -- 16. Europeans chez nous and Brit expats in Europe -- 17. Divorce and a new partnership -- 18. Brexit spells danger for Ireland and concern in Scotland -- Part four: why Brexit will change Europe -- 19. How Europe can survive Brexit -- 20. What is to be done? -- 21. Why the Euro will survive -- 22. New politics are needed in Europe -- 23. The EU after 2019 must be different or it will die -- Afterword -- 24. How the UK stays in Europe.
The UK's Brexit vote in 2016 and the inconclusive general election just 12 months later have unleashed a wave of chaos and uncertainty - on the eve of formal negotiations with the EU.
Denis MacShane - former MP and Europe minister under Tony Blair - has a unique insider perspective on the events that led to the Brexit vote and ultimately to Theresa May's ill-fated election gamble of June 2017.
He argues that Brexit will not mean full rupture with Europe and that British business will overcome the rightwing forces of the Conservative back-benches and UKIP, which have already been weakened by the latest election. Although negotiations with the EU may prove excruciating, Britain cannot and will not divorce itself from the continent of Europe.
Indeed, the European question will remain the defining political issue of our time.
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