A Canada v Norway second vote: a way out of impasse?

Posted on 30 October 2018 by Dr Thomas Prosser

Given last week’s march and the fact that crunch time is looming, it is a good time to write about potential exits from the Brexit impasse. Specifically, I would like to discuss the merits of a second referendum which offers a simple choice between ‘Canada’ and ‘Norway’ style Brexits and does not include the option
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Brexit and the territorial constitution: déjà vu all over again?

Posted on 2 August 2018 by Professor Daniel Wincott

Brexit is re-making the UK’s constitution under our noses. The territorial constitution is particularly fragile. Pursuing Brexit, Theresa May’s government has stumbled into deep questions about devolution. The territorial politics of Brexit is a bewildering mix of ignorance, apparent disdain, confrontation, cooperation and collaboration. Rarely have the so-called devolution ‘settlements’ appeared more unsettled. The UK’s
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The future relationship between the UK and the EU

Posted on 26 July 2018 by Dr Annegret Engel

Two years after the UK referendum to leave the EU the British Government has finally released its strategy on the future relationship between the UK and the EU in a White Paper from 12 July 2018. The White Paper proposes a ‘soft’ Brexit in order to limit the negative repercussions for the British economy when
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Labouring the issue

Posted on 31 May 2018 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Much media and academic attention on Brexit has understandably focussed on the external dimension: the complex negotiations between the UK and the EU over withdrawal and a future relationship. A great deal has also concentrated on the difficult internal politics at Westminster – with Theresa May’s government, lacking a parliamentary majority and deeply internally divided,
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The future of Welsh fisheries

Posted on 1 May 2018 by Mair Bell

A new report for the Wales Centre for Public Policy authored by Griffin Carpenter and Chris Williams of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and Suzannah Walmsley of ABPmer, looks at the implications of leaving the EU and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) for fishing opportunities in Wales. The report argues that there are three main axes of risk and reward presented
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