From broke to Brexit : Britain's lost decade / Michael Burton.
Publisher: Cham, Swizerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022Description: xiv, 255 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783030818883; 9783030818890Subject(s): Political science | Public policy | Economic policy | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2010- | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1997- | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 320.941090512Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 320.941090512 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 021165 |
I. The undercurrents -- From boom to bust -- 'What has the EU ever done for us?' -- The immigration debate -- Globalism and the 'left behind' -- The great faultline : Europe and the Conservatives -- II. The catalysts -- Austerity -- Cameron opts for a referendum -- Pulling up the drawbridge -- The disrupters -- The recovery that wasn't -- Labor turns to populism -- Dress rehearsal for the referendum -- III. The brave new world -- Road map to the referendum -- The referendum -- The merry months of may -- The gamble that failed -- Brexit unravels -- Boris and the Brexiteers -- Aftermath.