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REFERENDUM+10: Ten Years On: Youth and a ‘Lost Generation’? | Joanna Helme
In 2016, young people in the UK voted overwhelming to remain in the EU. Yet many of the hardships linked to leaving are now being felt disproportionately by young people – particularly through employment and education. We may look at a ‘lost generation’, as a recent report by former minister Alan Milburn warned. Ten years on from […]

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REFERENDUM+10: The Brexit effect on perceptions of referendums | Alan Renwick
Brexit has deeply affected attitudes to referendums in the UK. In the two decades before June 2016, referendums had been held on multiple questions, including devolution, electoral reform, and Scottish independence. Party manifestos promised more: in 2010, for example, Labour proposed a vote on reform of the House of Lords, the Lib Dems one on […]

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REFERENDUM+10: The referendum, Brexit – and the Roman Republic | Gesine Manuwald
The run-up to the Brexit referendum could be seen to display some similarities to oratorical campaigns in ancient Rome, especially during the first century BCE, as discussed in a blog in 2016. Ten years later one may ask whether a comparison with political rhetoric or political features in the Roman Republic is still instructive. Naturally, ‘Brexit’ […]

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REFERENDUM+10: The Many Meanings of Brexit | Leah Trueblood
The phrase ‘Brexit means Brexit’ dominated British politics in the early years following the referendum. The tautological structure of this statement reflected a deeper problem: the meaning of the referendum was unclear from the beginning. Arguably, this was because the legal meaning of Brexit was contested on (at least) two different axes: first, ‘what is […]

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REFERENDUM+10: Brexit and the Politics of Meaning | Ece Özlem Atikcan
Ten years after the Brexit referendum, one lesson stands out from my research on referendum campaigns: economic arguments alone rarely win high-stakes political contests. The prevailing wisdom among policymakers, academics and commentators was that voters would punish proposals associated with heightened economic uncertainty. Expert forecasts and warnings about the economic cost...

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