School of Politics and International Relations

Professor Michael Kenny, English nationalism is rising: but hard Brexit is not the way to assuage it

18 March 2017

Professor Michael Kenny writes for The Observer about the rise of English nationalism and the need for a more nuanced approach to Brexit. He writes: “A Brexit that preserves access to the UK’s largest export market, promotes a fairer deal within England, and develops a more devolved UK is most likely to find favour with those May calls the ‘just about managing’. But the kind of Brexit towards which the government is currently propelling the country looks increasingly unlikely to deliver on these ambitions”.  
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