Brexit. How Britain will leave Europe

Will Britain leave the EU? Following the Conservative victory in the 2015 General Election, the question of 'Brexit' - a British exit from the EU - is high on the political agenda. In this book, former Europe Minister Denis MacShane looks at the history of Britain's fraught relationship with Europe and shows how the possibility of Brexit has become increasingly more likely. He looks at the key personalities who shaped Britain's European policy - from Churchill to Heath and Wilson to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron - and the key issues of immigration and the economy which have heightened Eurosceptic feeling in the UK. Touching on one of the most divisive political issues of our times, this book will be essential reading as Britain, now with its post-election Conservative government, moves towards a referendum on Europe and considers its future place in the world.

Contents:

1. A Centrifugal Europe
2. Churchill Invents the United States of Europe
3. The First Anti-European Party
4. Labour Says Non, Merci to Europe
5. The Tories Became the Party of Europe, Or Did They?
6. Jacques Delors Launches British Euroscepticism
7. From Maggie to Major: the Drift to Conservative Euroscepticism
8. Tony Blair: Was He Pro-European?
9. William Hague and David Cameron Help Create UKIP
10. Where's the Vision Thing? Ask Friedrich Hayek
11. How the City Finances Europhobia
12. The British Like Their Parliament, But No Other
13. Myths, Murdoch, Lies: the Press and Europe
14. How the Eurozone Has Marginalized Britain
15. Can Britain Ever Learn to Love Europe?
Afterword: What Happens Now?

• Primary Source

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

Politico, 03.11.15: 12 reasons why Cameron will lose on Brexit http://www.politico.eu/article/12-reasons-why-cameron-will-lose-on-brexit-tories-euroskeptic/

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