Brexit: How Britain Left Europe

Denis MacShane

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2016

HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in modern British political history. In this new and updated edition of Denis MacShane's bestselling history of the UK's relationship with Europe, the former Europe Minister reveals the full story behind Britain's historic EU Referendum decision. Denis MacShane was the only senior Remainer to havecalled the EU Referendum result correctly and his book provides the essential context to the new political and economic landscape of Brexit Britain.

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Notă biografică

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.

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Preface1) A Centrifugal Europe2) Churchill Invents the United States of Europe 3) The First Anti-European Party4) 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 Euroscepticim8) Tony Blair - Was he Pro-European?9) William Hague and David Cameron help create UKIP10) Where's the vision? - Hayek had it, no one today11) How the City Funds anti-Europeanism 12) The English like their Parliament, not Europe's13) 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?