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Brexit, the Union, and the Future of England

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Vincent
Date01 December 2018
Published date01 December 2018
DOI10.1177/2041905818815196
AuthorAilsa Henderson
32 POLITICAL INSIGHT • DECEMBER 2018
The Future of England Survey,
a project run by academics
at Edinburgh and Cardiff
universities, is now in its seventh
year. Throughout that time, the survey has
consistently shown a relationship between
attitudes to the European Union and the
domestic union of the United Kingdom. For
2018 we conducted our surveys in England,
Scotland and Wales (fieldwork for which
was conducted by YouGov) and in Northern
Ireland (fieldwork for which was conducted
by Lucid Talk) to provide a 360-degree
evaluation of the current state of the union.
The operating logic of the Future
of England Survey is that many of the
Brexit, the Union, and
the Future of England
The UK voted to leave the European Union, but Brexit is revealing
huge tensions in another political union – the UK itself. Ailsa
Henderson reports on new research into our attitudes and identities
and f‌inds limited enthusiasm for our oldest union.
concepts that are long confined to study
politics in the Celtic fringes can help us
to understand both politics in the UK and
English political attitudes in particular. This
was true before the Brexit vote, but issues
of self-determination, nationalism, the
strength and salience of sub-state identities
and nested communities of social solidarity
are clearly significant themes.
English questions
Consistent with earlier findings, the most
recent iteration of the survey found that
those who are most anxious about the
European Union were precisely those

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