{"id":1339,"date":"2017-10-05T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2017-10-05T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:41:08","slug":"has-brexit-reshaped-british-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/has-brexit-reshaped-british-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Brexit reshaped British Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

POLSIS<\/a> (Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham) hosted the first of their seminar series last week which saw the legendary Professor John Curtice \u2013 the nation\u2019s leading expert on elections, voting and public opinion and \u201cthe man who won the 2017 elections\u201d \u2013 assess last year\u2019s EU Referendum result and British politics post-Brexit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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City-REDI\u2019s Charlotte Hoole<\/a> and Chloe Billing<\/a> were at the seminar to join in the debate \u2013 a recording of the presentation can be found here<\/a>. However, for those wanting a quick summary, the key points to take away are presented below.<\/p>\n

Professor John Curtice<\/a>\u2019s analysis was based on three key sources; British Social Attitudes survey 2015 (a mixed mode probability panel), British Election Study (Internet panel), and Commercial opinion polls.<\/p>\n

The EU Referendum was a disruptive moment for British politics, cutting across the traditional values that have shaped voter patterns for many decades. No longer a matter of Left and Right wing politics, evidence was presented that the Referendum result was driven by:<\/p>\n