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10 - Brexitland after Brexit: The Electoral Fallout from the EU Referendum

from Part III - Brexitland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2020

Maria Sobolewska
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Robert Ford
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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Chapter 10 concludes our story by looking at the evolving electoral aftermath of Brexit in England and Wales, as seen in the 2017 and 2019 general elections, and the possible paths forward. The steady growth of the identity liberal electorate of graduates and ethnic minorities has provided Labour with a powerful source of new votes. But this influx of new identity liberal supporters has also created new electoral risks, risks underlined by the party’s weak performance in the 2019 election. The growing electoral heft of identity liberals within the Labour coalition has increased the political power of identity politics to unsettle the attachments of economically left-wing but socially conservative ‘old left’ voters, who are increasingly at odds with the identity liberal groups now rising to dominance in Labour’s electoral coalition. The re-alignment of these voters, driven by Brexit, fuelled the Conservatives’ 2019 triumph, but that success in turn brings new challenges. The Conservatives have made major short-term gains with white school leavers, but must now meet the expectations of these disaffected and distrustful voters, and also face growing risks of counter-mobilisation from graduates and ethnic minorities opposed to the identity conservative politics they are now seen as representing.

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Brexitland
Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics
, pp. 284 - 322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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