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Mar 13, 2024 · The invasion of Ukraine and the prospect of a second Trump presidency have reminded both sides of the UK’s role in European defence — and the case for pulling it back into the EU’s broader orbit....
Feb 1, 2024 · Indeed, the risk that a future Conservative government might reverse any deals done by Labour will make them harder to agree. The most promising path lies in areas where the EU sees benefits for...
Mar 27, 2021 · Their worldview is more conservative and less cosmopolitan than the vast majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party. The article now moves to explain and understand conservatism as an aspect of the Labour euro-sceptic tradition.
- Matt Beech
- m.beech@hull.ac.uk
- 2021
Feb 24, 2021 · Yet for the Conservatives, Brexit was a much more divisive issue. The party had historically been the more pro-European. Edward Heath led Britain into the then European Economic Community in 1973, and there were still some veteran pro-Europeans left on the Conservative benches, such as Ken Clarke.
- Ben Williams, Kevin Hickson
- 2021
- Disregarding UKIP
- Developing Soft Euroscepticism
- Defusing The EU Issue
- Changing Support For The Conservatives and UKIP
- Challenges of Coalition
The Conservatives disregarded UKIP even as it gained support, giving voters the impression that UKIP was not a serious rival. This differs from the ‘dismissive strategy’ identified by Meguid (2005) in which a mainstream party downplays the merit of the niche party's issue. The deliberate disregard for the UKIP threat was an attempt to undermine the...
The Conservatives have developed a soft Eurosceptic position since the mid-1990s when John Major threatened to veto further transfers of powers, sought opt-outs and promised a referendum should his party recommend EMU entry. William Hague then developed an ‘in Europe, not run by Europe’ position with commitments to referendums on major EU treaties,...
Parties can encourage EU issue voting by providing cues to their supporters, raising the salience of the issue and offering a clear position. Conservative policy and personnel became more Eurosceptic in the 1990s, the positions of the Conservatives and Labour diverged and the EU issue became, for a time, more important for voters (Green, 2007). We ...
What effect have the Conservatives’ decisions to hold their position in policy terms and reduce the salience of the European issue had on support for UKIP? According to Meguid (2005), maintaining policy differences from the niche party should lead to greater support for the latter whereas reducing the issue's salience should have the opposite effec...
Conservative manifesto commitments on EU policy repatriation were dropped during coalition negotiations with the Liberal Democrats. The European Union Act 2011 includes a ‘referendum lock’ ensuring that future treaties transferring powers from the United Kingdom to the EU will be subject to a referendum. But a referendum is unlikely during the curr...
- Philip Lynch, Richard Whitaker
- 2013
Sep 26, 2018 · Today, Labour’s MPs, individual members and affiliated trade unions are overwhelmingly pro-EU and hostile to Brexit. All but about ten Labour MPs voted “Remain” in the referendum.
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Mar 14, 2024 · The reports — one on Brexit and the British state by the UK in a Changing Europe think-tank, and the other on how to fix the EU-UK trade deal by a group of pro-European Conservatives (I know) —...
