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Opinion: Why policymakers should care about location

08 Mar 2019

What account should policymaking take of the notion of 'place' – the landscapes, cities and towns we inhabit, with all the opportunities and...

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Brexit March

‘Cognitive flexibility’ associated with voting attitudes in EU Referendum, study finds

16 Apr 2018

Latest research combining social and political surveys with objective cognitive testing suggests that “cognitive flexibility” contributes to...

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Opinion: Parliament and Brexit

30 Jun 2017

The general election result increases leverage for Parliament when it comes to Brexit. Here, Baroness Smith of Newnham, a lecturer in the Department...

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Opinion: Remainer or re-leaver? The philosophical conundrum posed by Brexit

07 Jun 2017

A recent YouGov survey suggests there is increasing agreement that 'Brexit means Brexit'. However, Alfred Moore from the Conspiracy and Democracy...

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Brexit: people are angry but looking for compromise, research finds

22 May 2017

Researchers engaged with people across the East of England and found anxiety and resentment, as well as a broad consensus that the UK should remain...

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Listen: Cambridge experts talk post-Brexit options for the UK

04 Apr 2017

On 30 March, the day after the 'triggering' of Article 50 began the official Brexit process, a group of University of Cambridge lawyers, economists...

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Opinion: The Great Repeal Bill White Paper in 20 tweets

31 Mar 2017

Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law, posted a number of tweets yesterday extracting key paragraphs from the Government’s White Paper on the Great...

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Opinion: The Road to Brexit, or the UK’s Journey into the Unknown

29 Mar 2017

The Prime Minister's triggering of Article 50 is merely the end of the beginning, argues Dr Julie Smith

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Database protecting UK migrants in EU from Brexit ‘misinformation’ to be built by Cambridge researchers

22 Feb 2017

Urgent requirement for channels of timely and reliable information to be developed targeting UK-born people living on the continent, say researchers...

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Opinion: The Full Brexit

17 Jan 2017

The Director of Cambridge's Centre for European Legal Studies offers his initial reaction to the Prime Minister's address

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Opinion: Four ways to understand Theresa May’s Hard Brexit Speech

17 Jan 2017

An economic historian offers her initial reaction to the Prime Minister's address

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EU referendum CONTRAST

Hard Brexiter or ardent Remainer? Psychologists aim to find out what drives our political ideologies

01 Dec 2016

At a time of increasing divisions within politics – think of the recent battles over whether the UK should remain in or leave the European Union –...

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