Restoring Political Trust by Getting Brexit Done? Insights from English focus groups
| Published date | 01 December 2020 |
| Author | Jen Gaskell,Will Jennings,Gerry Stoker |
| Date | 01 December 2020 |
| DOI | 10.1177/2041905820978842 |
DECEMBER 2020 • POLITICAL INSIGHT 33
On 14 December 2019, shortly
after winning an 80-seat
parliamentary majority,
Boris Johnson held a rally in
Sedgefield, Tony Blair’s former constituency,
during which he vowed that everything he
did as Prime Minister would be ‘devoted’ to
‘repaying the trust’ that voters had put in
him, and delivering on the promise to ‘Get
Brexit Done’. But will getting Brexit done
restore political trust among the British
public?
Quantitative methods such as surveys
– widely used in the study of Brexit and
Restoring Political Trust
by Getting Brexit Done?
Insights from English focus groups
Boris Johnson promised to ‘get Brexit done’. But has the Prime
Minister’s pledge rebuilt trust in voters? And what about COVID-19?
Jen Gaskell, Gerry Stoker and Will Jennings report from focus groups
in towns and cities across England.
its politics – can provide insights into the
current balance of public opinion and
how it changes in response to events.
Qualitative methods such as focus groups,
on other hand, enable us to uncover how
people experience issues and how they
make their political judgments. There is
value in understanding what it means to
people to ‘get Brexit done’ and whether that
connects to any process that might restore
trust in the government and politics more
widely. Such methods help researchers test
whether their framing of issues is grounded
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