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Iperstoria, 2022 Combining the theoretical background of Critical Discourse Studies (van Dijk 2015a, 2015b; van Leeuwen 2008; Wodak 2015a) with a corpus-assisted methodology (van Diik 2015a; 2015b), this paper contrastively investigates the discursive representation of ...
Maria Ivana Lorenzetti
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Effet Brexit, effet Corbyn ou crise existentielle ? Les dimensions de l’échec travailliste
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2020 In the General Election of December 2019, the Labour Party suffered a surprising and spectacular defeat, the fourth in a row within a decade, one of the worst in its history since WWII.
Gilles Leydier
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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2020 The glossary which can be found on the UK Parliament website defines the manifesto as “a publication issued by a political party before a general election”, adding that “it contains the set of policies that the party stands for and would wish to ...
Toufik Abdou
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A Female Neighbour in Whose Country? The Untold Story of Afia Begum and the Sari Squad
Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2022 This paper is one of the first attempts to reconstruct the story of Afia Begum, wife —and later widow— of Abdul Hamid (a Bangladeshi immigrant in Thatcherite London), whose entry was cleared by the British Home Office in 1982, months before her husband ...
Arup K. Chatterjee
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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 This article provides an overview of British trade unions’ activism against the United Kingdom staying first in the EEC and then in the European Union during the referendum campaigns held in 1975 and 2016.
Houcine Msaddek
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Politics and Governance, 2016 This article contributes to a burgeoning literature on political leadership, offering an interim assessment of Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as leader of the UK Labour party.
Patrick Diamond
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell +3 more
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Potential risks to the National Health Service (NHS) of a Post-Brexit US Trade Deal
Revue LISA, 2021 At the very heart of the pro-Brexit narrative, currently supported by Eurosceptic politicians such as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and David Davis, and Conservative think tanks including the Institute of Economic Affairs and Adam Smith’s Institute, is the
Louise Dalingwater
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Ed Davey's Tory Removals: The Liberal Democrats and the 2024 General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 83-90, January/March 2025.Abstract The 2024 general election represented a remarkable comeback for the Liberal Democrats. Less than a decade on from the coalition and the 2015 election debacle, Sir Ed Davey's party reclaimed third‐party status in the House of Commons with seventy‐two MPs—the largest total for the Liberal Democrats or their Liberal Party predecessors since the ...
Peter Sloman
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Brexit, the Conservatives and the General Election 2017
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2018 Theresa May called a general election in 2017, hoping to increase her Parliamentary majority and to strengthen her authority in negotiating Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.
Dennis Kavanagh
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