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Why did Britain vote to leave the EU? Written with access to government insiders and featuring exclusive new post-referendum analysis Denise MacShane explains the reasons behind the success of the Leave campaign and Britain´s decision to exit the EU.

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HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED? On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in modern British political history. In this new and updated edition of Denis MacShane´s bestselling history of the UK´s relationship with Europe, the former Europe Minister reveals the full story behind Britain´s historic EU Referendum decision. Denis MacShane was the only senior Remainer to havecalled the EU Referendum result correctly and his book provides the essential context to the new political and economic landscape of Brexit Britain.

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Preface

1) A Centrifugal Europe
2) Churchill Invents the United States of Europe
3) The First Anti-European Party
4) Labour to Europe: "Non, merci beaucoup!"
5) The Tories Became the Party of Europe or Did They?
6) Jacques Delors Launches English Euroscepticism
7) From Maggie to Major, the drift to Euroscepticim
8) Tony Blair - Was he Pro-European?
9) William Hague and David Cameron help create UKIP
10) Where´s the vision? - Hayek had it, no one today
11) How the City Funds anti-Europeanism
12) The English like their Parliament, not Europe´s
13) Fibs, Myths and Murdoch - the press and Europe
14) How the Eurozone has marginalized Britain
15) Will England ever fall in love with Europe?

Afterword What happens now?

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Denis MacShane was a Labour MP serving in Tony Blair´s government as Minister for Europe. He was first elected as MP for Rotherham in 1994 and served until his resignation in 2012. MacShane studied at Oxford and London Universities and has four children. He is a prominent commentator on European issues.

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