No Second Chances
The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second EU Referendum
Will be published approx. on 29. January 2026
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-78590-983-2 (ISBN)
Description
Between 2016
and 2019, a unique coalition assembled within British politics. Combining
Corbynite campaigners and Conservative Cabinet ministers, celebrities and
grassroots activists, seasoned political veterans and novice political
amateurs, this disparate assemblage of forces was brought together by one aim:
stopping Brexit. What began as the unfocused, often deeply emotional belief
that Britain must not leave the EU morphed, fleetingly, into a mass movement:
the People's Vote campaign, a mess of organisations united by the call for a
second referendum on Europe.
From the
stunts of youth campaigners and the online antics of new pro-EU influencers to
the million-person marches of 2019 and the launch of new centrist parties, many
people, serious and unserious alike, dedicated themselves to securing a new
vote. A campaign premised on telling the nation that they had gotten it
catastrophically wrong was always going to be hard, and it was only made more
so by parliamentary maths that never seemed to quite add up. Based on
interviews with the people who were there, No Second Chances tells
the dramatic, bizarre, and (at times) embarrassing story of one of recent
British history's most feted roads not taken.
and 2019, a unique coalition assembled within British politics. Combining
Corbynite campaigners and Conservative Cabinet ministers, celebrities and
grassroots activists, seasoned political veterans and novice political
amateurs, this disparate assemblage of forces was brought together by one aim:
stopping Brexit. What began as the unfocused, often deeply emotional belief
that Britain must not leave the EU morphed, fleetingly, into a mass movement:
the People's Vote campaign, a mess of organisations united by the call for a
second referendum on Europe.
From the
stunts of youth campaigners and the online antics of new pro-EU influencers to
the million-person marches of 2019 and the launch of new centrist parties, many
people, serious and unserious alike, dedicated themselves to securing a new
vote. A campaign premised on telling the nation that they had gotten it
catastrophically wrong was always going to be hard, and it was only made more
so by parliamentary maths that never seemed to quite add up. Based on
interviews with the people who were there, No Second Chances tells
the dramatic, bizarre, and (at times) embarrassing story of one of recent
British history's most feted roads not taken.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 145 mm
Width: 226 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
354 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78590-983-2 (9781785909832)
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Person
Morgan Jones was born in Dublin and moved to London
in 2015 to study history at Queen Mary, University of London. She worked for
the Labour Party in a variety of roles, including as an aide to a shadow
cabinet member, before moving into journalism. She has worked as a reporter for
the Labour and trade union focused website LabourList, and is currently a
freelance writer, with work, primarily focusing on British politics, appearing
in the i, the New Statesman, Bloomberg, Prospect,
Jacobin, i-D, the Fence, The House magazine,
OpenDemocracy, City AM, The Observer, Political
Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor and regular
contributor to Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, and has a
master's degree in Modern British History. She lives in Kent with her partner.
in 2015 to study history at Queen Mary, University of London. She worked for
the Labour Party in a variety of roles, including as an aide to a shadow
cabinet member, before moving into journalism. She has worked as a reporter for
the Labour and trade union focused website LabourList, and is currently a
freelance writer, with work, primarily focusing on British politics, appearing
in the i, the New Statesman, Bloomberg, Prospect,
Jacobin, i-D, the Fence, The House magazine,
OpenDemocracy, City AM, The Observer, Political
Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor and regular
contributor to Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, and has a
master's degree in Modern British History. She lives in Kent with her partner.