Brexit
How Britain Left Europe
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2016
256 pages
978-0-85772-542-4 (ISBN)
Description
Will Britain leave the EU? In recent months, commentators have begun to talk seriously about the possibility of 'Brexit' - British Exit from the EU. In this book, former Europe minister Denis MacShane looks at the history of Britain's fraught relationship with Europe and shows how the possibility of Brexit has become increasingly more likely. He looks at the key personalities who shaped our European policy - from Churchill to Heath and Wilson to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron - and the key issues of immigration, the economy and media influence which have heightened Eurosceptic feeling in the UK. Touching on one of the biggest political issues of our times, this book will be essential reading as Britain makes its choice on Europe.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
11,61 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85772-542-4 (9780857725424)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Denis MacShane was a Labour MP serving in Tony Blair's government as Minister for Europe. He was first elected as MP for Rotherham in 1994 and served until his resignation in 2012. MacShane studied at Oxford and London Universities and has four children. He is a prominent commentator on European issues.
Content
Preface
1) A Centrifugal Europe
2) Churchill Invents the United States of Europe
3) The First Anti-European Party
4) Labour to Europe: "Non, merci beaucoup!"
5) The Tories Became the Party of Europe or Did They?
6) Jacques Delors Launches English Euroscepticism
7) From Maggie to Major, the drift to Euroscepticim
8) Tony Blair - Was he Pro-European?
9) William Hague and David Cameron help create UKIP
10) Where's the vision? - Hayek had it, no one today
11) How the City Funds anti-Europeanism
12) The English like their Parliament, not Europe's
13) Fibs, Myths and Murdoch - the press and Europe
14) How the Eurozone has marginalized Britain
15) Will England ever fall in love with Europe?
Afterword What happens now?
1) A Centrifugal Europe
2) Churchill Invents the United States of Europe
3) The First Anti-European Party
4) Labour to Europe: "Non, merci beaucoup!"
5) The Tories Became the Party of Europe or Did They?
6) Jacques Delors Launches English Euroscepticism
7) From Maggie to Major, the drift to Euroscepticim
8) Tony Blair - Was he Pro-European?
9) William Hague and David Cameron help create UKIP
10) Where's the vision? - Hayek had it, no one today
11) How the City Funds anti-Europeanism
12) The English like their Parliament, not Europe's
13) Fibs, Myths and Murdoch - the press and Europe
14) How the Eurozone has marginalized Britain
15) Will England ever fall in love with Europe?
Afterword What happens now?
