Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019) - Archive ouverte HAL Access content directly
Journal Articles Parliamentary Affairs Year : 2020

Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019)

Abstract

Brexit seems to have produced a new form of narrative in the Conservative Party in which some Conservative MPs brand themselves first and foremost as representatives of ‘the people’. Following on from the 2016 EU referendum, a new discourse has become prominent in the party and has also been developed as a new critique of the British Parliament. An analysis of Hansard debates between July 2016 and December 2019 helps identify different forms of anti-Parliament narrative which denounce the paralysis of the legislative process as well as its anti-democratic and conspiratorial features. By doing so, they reveal a radical departure from the historic values of the Conservative party such as the ‘veneration’ of Parliament but question the claim that this may signal the surge of a new type of populism.
Not file

Dates and versions

hal-03052833 , version 1 (10-12-2020)

Identifiers

Cite

Agnès Alexandre-Collier. Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019). Parliamentary Affairs, 2020, ⟨10.1093/pa/gsaa060⟩. ⟨hal-03052833⟩

Collections

UNIV-BOURGOGNE TIL
35 View
0 Download

Altmetric

Share

Gmail Facebook Twitter LinkedIn More