Margaret Thatcher and the Rhetorical Road to Brexit

Roe-Crines, Andrew S ORCID: 0000-0002-6878-5030 (2020) Margaret Thatcher and the Rhetorical Road to Brexit. In: Thatcherism in the 21st Century. Springer International Publishing,Basingstoke, pp. 185-207. ISBN 9783030417918

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Abstract

The United Kingdom has been on a long road to Brexit. Discontent between the UK and the EU simmered under the surface until Margaret Thatcher’s Bruges Speech in 1988. The force and passion of the speech gave a green light for critics to openly campaign for Brexit. This chapter examines how Thatcher’s interventions between 1990 and 2007 galvanised Eurosceptic views, culminating in the UK’s departure in early 2020.

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Date Deposited:	16 Sep 2020 10:44
Last Modified:	02 Apr 2023 20:51
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-030-41792-5_10
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3101325