Full Description
This book explores how and why the UK left the European Union and its impact on the British Constitution. The British people voted to leave the European Union in 2016, decreeing a passage of historical significance with deep political and legal
implications, as well as socioeconomic and geo-strategic consequences yet to be defined. The work explores the roots behind that decision, examining the political and legal steps that led to Brexit and analysing the consequences and prospects for the United Kingdom. It considers the ways that the British Constitution has faced the test of Brexit, and its constitutional, political and socioeconomic implications. It further examines the ways in which these implications interact in order to reconstruct a coherent and real constitutional framework. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Constitutional Law, European Union Law, Political Science, Contemporary History, and International Trade.
Contents
Preface; Introduction; 1. Historical and political relations between the United Kingdom and continental Europe; 2. David Cameron's political strategies: from Coalition Agreement to the Agreement with Tusk; 3. The Brexit Referendum in the British Constitution; 4. Theresa May's Premiership: 'Brexit means Brexit'; 5. Boris Johnson's Brexit: from Prorogation to the TCA; 6. The consequences of Brexit for the future of the United Kingdom
