The Post-Referendum Reconfigurations of Party cleavages around Black and Asian Minority Ethnic Conservative MPs
Autor: | Alexandre-Collier, Agnès |
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Přispěvatelé: | Centre Interlangues : texte, image, langage [Dijon] (TIL), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC) |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of Contemporary European Studies Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020, ⟨10.1080/14782804.2020.1745161⟩ |
ISSN: | 1478-2804 |
DOI: | 10.1080/14782804.2020.1745161⟩ |
Popis: | International audience; At the level of the Conservative parliamentary party, one of the main effects of Brexit has been a realignment of party cleavages. While the old cleavage between Europhiles and Eurosceptics is no longer relevant and a new cleavage has appeared between soft and hard Brexiteers, this political upheaval has thus restructured Conservative ideological pluralism in the parliamentary party. Following a study of the 2015 intake of MPs who were supposedly ‘less stale, male and pale’ and their attitudes to the 2016 British referendum on the EU, this article will take a specific interest in all Conservative Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) MPs who turned out to be more active on the ‘leave’ side of the referendum campaign. They arguably embody a new feature of Conservative pluralism by operating a synthesis between inclusive modernisation and hard Brexit. Although the party should capitalise on this group of MPs to rid itself of its persistent image of a ‘nasty’ party pervaded with anti-immigration sentiment and hard Eurosceptic populism – an expression used by Theresa May in 2002 -, the strategy of ‘detoxifying’ the Brexit brand did not seem to have ever been part of her priorities as Prime Minister. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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