Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

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So there was absolute clarity on the key issue of the day versus absolute fudge on the clear issue of the day.

Following the best seller success of All Out War and Fall Out, this third volume of Tim Shipman’s political trilogy will provide an eye-opening insight into this epic saga. He pins much of the blame on leaders from Harold Macmillan to Edward Heath who never really explained to the party or indeed the public that eu membership necessarily entailed a loss of sovereignty. The beautiful thing about this book and all the books in the series is that, because it’s an established series, everyone talks to them. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused on the causes of the vote and on its consequences for the future of British politics. The book is to be welcomed in that contributors discuss most of the key policy areas, is lucid and jargon-free and, thanks to the publishers, is offered ‘open access’, freely available to all to read and download.

Here political scientist and Brexit expert Anand Menon recommends books to help you understand Brexit, what caused it and why, and puts those trends in a wider global political context. Margaret Thatcher’s premiership then set the stage for an antagonistic relationship that culminated in the 2016 referendum.

We’ve got a sense of what Brexit is, in the sense that we have a trade deal that specifies the nature of our relationship with the EU. It looks at many of the challenges to the EU, including those mentioned above, but through a Brexit lens. Last but not least, if spy novels are your thing, it turns out even John Le Carré has written a Brexit book with his thriller, Agent Running in the Field.By doing so, it provides a much needed scholarly guidepost for our understanding of the significance of Brexit, not only for the United Kingdom, but also for the future of the European continent. As politicians and academics discern what this historic decision will mean for UK Law, the books in this series offer a legal library for students, scholars and legal practitioners. He suggests we need to listen to people's concerns not only about the impact of immigration and globalisation on their lives but also about the injustice of a capitalist economy that makes them pay through austerity and cuts in social welfare for a financial crisis they were not responsible for.

Brexit comes at a time when the European energy sector is undergoing processes of decarbonization and energy transition. What we wanted to do was have a first cut at showing what drove the outcome of that referendum in 2016 and what it might mean for British politics from then on. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Power play … former Brexit secretary David Davis meets Michel Barnier.It’s a salutary reminder that, as Fiona says in her book, many of the factors driving developments in the United States are identical to those in the UK.