Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

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Brexit has irrevocably transformed British politics, yet its effects are not confined to relations between the UK and the EU. Despite the decisive 1975 referendum in favour, Labour fought the 1983 election campaign on a manifesto pledge to withdraw. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused on the causes of the vote and on its consequences for the future of British politics. He imagines alternative futures that will allow different generations to still appreciate themselves as Europeans with a future in Europe. Bestselling British novelist Cara Hunter—author of the DI Fawley series and Murder in the Family—talks us through some of her favourite crime novels set in the city of dreaming spires.

She went to Harvard after her undergraduate degree and has stayed in the States ever since, ending up working in Trump’s White House. Here political scientist and Brexit expert Anand Menon recommends books to help you understand Brexit, what caused it and why, and puts those trends in a wider global political context.Although it was little discussed during the referendum campaign, as soon as Leave won it became clear that Brexit would create problems on the island of Ireland.

Beyond the tortured processes of the UK’s extraction from the EU lies a multitude of questions about what Brexit means for justice and injustice. May unnecessarily triggered Article 50, which started a two-year stopwatch, without a clear vision of what she wanted.About a year and a half after the referendum Thomas Frank wrote a really interesting piece in The Guardian, comparing one of the places he looked at in the United States in Massachusetts with Wakefield, my hometown, which drew out the comparison explicitly.