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Brexit: Where have we got to and where are we heading?
Anand Menon
www.UKandEU.ac.uk
@anandMenon1
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Outline
• What’s going on?
• What might happen next?
• What will the impact be?
• Politics after Brexit
• Post-Brexit Britain
• Conclusion
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What’s going on?
• Parliamentary pantomime
• Slow shifts
• No options removed from the table
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What’s going on in the parties?
• Labour and ambiguity that worked in 2017
• Independent Group increasing pressure
• Tories and membership
• The pull of the tribe
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Labour’s effective ambiguity
Source: Ford/Sobolewska
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Source: Alan Wager/Survation/Chris Hanretty
Labour and Conservative target seats and Brexit vote, 2016
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Labour and Conservative target seats and Brexit opinion, 2019
Source: Alan Wager/Survation/Chris Hanretty
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Do you think the Labour party’s policy on Brexit is clear or unclear?
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Fairly/Completely Unclear and Confusing Fairly/Completely Clear Not sure
Source: YouGov/What UK Thinks/UK in a Changing Europe
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The party and public view of the Withdrawal Agreement
Do you support or oppose Mrs May’s draft Brexit deal?
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Tory Backbench MPs Tory Party Members Tory Voters
Support May's Deal Oppose May's Deal
Source: ESRC PMP Project/Hansard
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Source: ESRC Party Members Project
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What Next?
• The deal that won’t die
• May’s (possible plan)
• Playing chicken with parliament
• The votes to come
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The alternatives for MPs
• Delay - merely stalling
• Similarly, a general election
• Three options:• No deal (next slide)
• Referendum
• May’s deal
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Source: Bank of England
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It’s the economy, stupid? Public opinion since the vote
Source: What UK Thinks
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What will the impact be?
• Economic forecasts
• Aggregate terms we have a relatively clear picture
• Regional picture relatively stark
• Misleading notion of cliff edge
• ‘Slow puncture’?
• Matters in terms of narrative and the politics (cf debate over Nissan)
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Long-term economic impact of leaving the EU
GDP per head Fiscal impact
DEAL WTO
Worst-case scenario Worst-case scenarioBest-case scenario Best-case scenario
Source: UK in a Changing Europe
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Share of GDP exposed to
Brexit
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Politics after Brexit
• A new Brexit divide?
• Will it persist?
• The Independent Group
• Lots of plausible deniability about• For Labour, allow Tory Brexit and blame them for impact
• For Tories, show opposition to the deal now, so can attack later
• Lay groundwork for blaming EU
• Note also that behind the Brexit division the substantive divisions that exist
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Source: NatCen
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Social identity: the driver of Brexit
Source: British Election Study
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Where to post-Brexit?
• Important to bear in mind where we’re coming from
• Proof of Brexit pudding
• Domestic impact and developments
• Plenty to fix, much of which nothing to do with the EU
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Change in disposable household income in top 20 Leave and Remain voting areas
• Difference between highest Leave- and Remain-voting areas changed from £4,700 per year in 1997 to £11,100 in 2015
• Lambeth and Boston, the highest Leave-and Remain-voting areas respectively, went from the same level in 1997 to Lambeth being £3,600 ahead by 2015
Source: Matt Bevington/ONS
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Source: Rob Ford/UK in a Changing Europe
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London E England Scotland W Midlands N Ireland N East E Midlands Wales N West Yorks andHumber
S West S East
Gross value added per head growth, year on year, by region
2017 5yr av
Source: ONS
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Hansard Society Audit of Political Engagement
Satisfaction with system of governance
Feel can change the way UK is run
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Parliament emergingfrom Brexit in good light
Current generation ofpoliticians not up to the
job
British political systemneeds complete
overhaul
Brexit process hasshown politicians are intouch with the country
Current British politicalsystem enables my voice
to be heard
Written constitution?
%
ComRes poll, 14-15 January 2019
Agree Disagree Don't know
N=2,010
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Conclusion
• Breaking political mould
• Was revolution necessary?
• The Brexit challenge
• Politics versus economics?