When Planets Collide: The British Conservative Party and the Discordant Goals of Delivering Brexit and Preserving the Domestic Union, 2016–2019
| dc.contributor.author | Kenny, Michael | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sheldon, Jack | |
| dc.contributor.orcid | Sheldon, Jack [0000-0002-3857-5892] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-22T17:22:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-22T17:22:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06-20 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-10-22T17:22:31Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article explores how the British Conservative Party has dealt with the dilemmas arising from its pursuit of two increasingly discordant goals: delivering Brexit and maintaining the domestic Union. Drawing on interviews and analyses of parliamentary debates, we identify a resurgence in the 2016–2019 period of an older belief in a unitarist state, and a new form of pro-Union activism in policy terms. Against those commentators who depict Britain’s Conservatives as having abandoned their unionist vocation, we explore the coalescence of a more assertive and activist strain of unionist sentiment. But we also find a willingness among Conservatives at the centre to sub-contract thinking about non-English parts of the UK to ‘local’ political representatives such as the Democratic Unionist Party and the Scottish Conservatives, and a growing anxiety about how to handle emergent tensions between the competing priorities associated with delivering Brexit and maintaining the domestic Union. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.17863/CAM.77230 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1467-9248 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0032-3217 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1177_0032321720930986 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/329785 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | |
| dc.rights | Embargo: ends 2020-06-20 | |
| dc.subject | Articles | |
| dc.subject | Union | |
| dc.subject | Conservative Party | |
| dc.subject | Brexit | |
| dc.subject | territorial politics | |
| dc.subject | United Kingdom | |
| dc.title | When Planets Collide: The British Conservative Party and the Discordant Goals of Delivering Brexit and Preserving the Domestic Union, 2016–2019 | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-05-12 | |
| prism.endingPage | 984 | |
| prism.issueIdentifier | 4 | |
| prism.publicationName | Political Studies | |
| prism.startingPage | 965 | |
| prism.volume | 69 | |
| pubs.funder-project-id | Economic and Social Research Council (ES/P009441/1) | |
| rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-06-20 | |
| rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| rioxxterms.version | VoR | |
| rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1177/0032321720930986 |
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