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Is Brexit the end of the first of two unions?
The case for Brexit largely rested on the assumption that the United Kingdom is a unitary nation-state in which the people give effect to their will through a unitary and all-powerful Parliament. In this post, Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen) uncovers the shortcomings of such an approach and asks whether Brexit marks the end of the first of two unions? Pleading for her withdrawal deal in May 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May declared that Brexit was ‘the clear instruction of the British people in a lawful referendum’. As she had explained in 2017, this was because ‘supranational institutions as strong as ... (full story)
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