Brexit

Denis MacShane first used the word 'Brexit' in 2012 and predicted the referendum outcome in 2014 with his book Brexit: How Britain Left Europe (2015). He served as an MP for eighteen years and was Minister of Europe under Tony Blair and then UK delegate to the Council of Europe. Before being elected Labour MP for Rotherham in 1994, he worked for fifteen years as an international trade union official in Europe.

• Preface1) A Centrifugal Europe2) Churchill Invents the United States of Europe 3) The First Anti-European Party4) 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 Euroscepticim8) Tony Blair – Was he Pro-European?9) William Hague and David Cameron help create UKIP10) Where's the vision? – Hayek had it, no one today11) How the City Funds anti-Europeanism 12) The English like their Parliament, not Europe's13) 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?