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The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit by Meg Russell and Lisa James

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June 2023, no. 454
Ben Wellings reviews 'The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit' by Meg Russell and Lisa James

A key argument deployed by those in favour of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union concerned the restoration of parliamentary sovereignty. One of the ironies of Brexit is that some of the leading figures who argued for parliamentary sovereignty during the 2016 referendum tried to shut down Parliament three years later so that they could ‘get Brexit done’. This attack on a representative institution was part of an international pattern of democratic backsliding during the 2010s. For the authors of this new book, understanding the internal dynamics of Parliament during the Brexit years forms part of an effort to ‘defend democracy and its institutions’. 

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The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson

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December 2015, no. 377
Peter Heerey reviews 'The Churchill Factor' by Boris Johnson

Had it not been for the leadership of Winston Churchill in 1940, Nazi Germany would in all probability have won World War II. The most enthusiastic revisionist historian would grudgingly accept this proposition.

As this highly readable account by London Mayor Boris Johnson shows, 1940 was the high point of a career that extended from the 1890s to the 1960s. ...