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London Calling Brexit: it’s not about Britain and Europe, it’s about Barnet...
The London Borough of Barnet is one of the five local authority areas selected for the LSE project ‘Understanding Brexit impacts at a local level’. These reports contextualise the Brexit impact...
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Continental Breakfast 13: Brexit’s lasting effects on the EU
The departure of the UK will have lasting effects on the European Union, which will be felt for years to come. Marcel Hadeed (LSE) reports on a lunchtime event on 1 October, 2018 jointly hosted between...
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The Brexit Deal: Can Parliament be scared into submission?
As agreement is reached with the EU, Theresa May’s Brexit deal will come before Parliament. In this blog, Benjamin Martill (LSE) breaks down the parliamentary arithmetic and assesses her options. My...
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Cultural, administrative, and economic proximity between the UK and Canada...
Economists place considerable emphasis on the role of (geographic) distance in explaining the pattern of international trading relationships. Using a metaphor from Newtonian physics, trade and foreign...
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A breakdown of EU norms and rules risks opening Pandora’s box
The dispute between Italy and the European Commission over the Italian budget for 2019 illustrates a shift in how member states treat the obligations of EU membership. Iain Begg and Kevin Featherstone...
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Labour’s opportunity: the party should abandon soft Brexit and back remain...
Mary Kaldor (LSE) argues that now is the moment for Labour to abandon the soft Brexit position and come out for remain and reform as part of a far-reaching deliberative exercise in both Britain and...
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Staying in the EU would not be perfect. But it’s the best deal on offer
Is it time for Parliament to compromise and vote through May’s Brexit deal? Dimitri Zenghelis (LSE) argues that ‘no deal’ is not the only viable alternative to a deeply flawed deal. Yes, a second...
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‘What does Brexit mean to you?’ Introducing 5 key items from LSE Library’s...
The history of the UK in and out of the European Union has been a long and complex one. LSE Library has unique collections that document this history, from the archives of MPs active in the debates,...
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Continental Breakfast 14: Why the EU will insist that ‘Brexit means Brexit’
The EU has not given the UK what it wanted – which was free access to the Single Market without freedom of movement and the constraints of European Court of Justice rulings. This is because the EU...
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Resist, Rebel and Remain: the nation deserves and demands a second chance
Parliament should vote down Theresa May’s Brexit deal on Tuesday. John Van Reenen (MIT/LSE) writes that while the argument for remaining in the EU is fundamentally moral and political, and not...
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LSE Continental Breakfast 15: the ‘meaningful vote’
The latest in the series of LSE Continental Breakfasts – discussions held under Chatham House rules – tackled the issue of the Commons’ role in Brexit, and the ‘meaningful vote’ in particular. Oliver...
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Losing the ‘Europeanisation’ meta-narrative for modernising British democracy
Despite claims of Britain’s enduring political and constitutional distinctiveness, in the period from 1997 to 2016 the UK in fact modernised its polity by following several strong ‘Europeanisation’...
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A second referendum: what question to ask – and when to do it?
The current position in the UK with regard to Brexit is said to be a constitutional crisis. Andrea Biondi and Maria Kendrick (Kings College London) consider two of the most fundamental issues (the...
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A way out of the Brexit chaos? Parliament should install a national government
Is there a way out of the Brexit chaos, asks Iain Begg (LSE)? With still no solution in sight for Brexit, the time has come for a more imaginative approach, he writes. The UK’s politicians need to look...
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No-confidence vote may help May overcome her domestic opposition
Benjamin Martill argues the no-confidence vote brought by Tory backbenchers may help Theresa May overcome some of her domestic opposition, although the barriers to the withdrawal agreement passing...
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Europe Beyond Brexit: what’s next?
While the scheduled date of Brexit is fast approaching, the British public debate, which is focused on the current state of the exit negotiations and the outlooks for the future relationship, mainly...
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The Brexit mess shows how the UK’s referendum process could learn from...
Last weeks have seen the UK Parliament knee-deep in Brexit related debates, all of which stem from 2016’s non-binding referendum. Erik P. Bucy writes the current rancour in the UK over Brexit is...
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There is no left-wing case for Brexit: 21st century socialism requires...
The contribution of traditional social democracy to the consolidation of neoliberalism in Europe illustrates the difficulties of developing a nationalist left alternative in the contemporary capitalist...
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LSE Brexit’s 2018 holiday reading list
To mark the holiday season, we’ve compiled a list of six of some of our most-read posts from the past year. 1. Brexit has become unnegotiable. Theresa May has a constitutional duty to admit that truth...
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LSE Brexit in 2018: the editors’ pick
Traffic and retweets aren’t everything – and some of our most interesting posts weren’t necessarily the most-read. LSE Brexit editors Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz and Ros Taylor pick their highlights from 2018....
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