Qvortrup’s style is easy-going and conversational, yet the scholarship is rigorous. His own views are not necessarily neutral. At one point, after defining ‘plebiscite’ as the kind of referendum ...

Elected the local MP in 2010, Rory Stewart became a minister under David Cameron and Theresa May, voted to remain in the ...

Brexit has been like a long divorce, and now most Brits have buyer’s remorse. A survey for The Independent shows more than two-thirds of people in the United Kingdom support a second referendum on ...

IT IS RARE for voters to change their minds soon after referendums. Experience from Canada to Scotland, from Norway to Switzerland, suggests rather that opinions tend to move in favour of a referendum ...

Publishing a book entitled 75 Brexit Benefits is bold, if not outright deluded, especially now that even the government has admitted Brexit’s failure. At the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Keir ...

POLITICS IS routinely dominated by the short run: in-party scraps; looming by-elections. But quietly shifting and longer-term trends risk being neglected. One such is the rise of disillusion with ...

LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - The referendum in which Britons voted to leave the European Union is not legally binding, the Supreme Court was told on Wednesday during a hearing on who has the power to ...

The UCL European Institute, which Uta Staiger directs, has received funding from the European Commission through its Jean Monnet programme. On June 23 2016 the UK went to the polls to decide the ...

Britain was a very different place in 2006. Tony Blair was Prime Minister, the financial crisis that would go on to devastate the global economy had yet to arrive, and a member of parliament named ...

During the three years after the EU referendum poll, Brexit's impact on the NHS caused 1,485 additional deaths per year as a result of EU nurses leaving the UK following the referendum, according to a ...