Brian Harrison

Between 1990 and 2020, the United Kingdom experienced tension between unparalleled social change and a pragmatic political culture which sought continuity, compromise and gradualism. Thatcher's legacy was slowly digested, Blair's 'New Labour' thoroughly scrutinised and the decision was made after forty-seven years to leave the European Union. The UK's long-established major institutions—monarchy, parliament and the union between England, Scotland, Wales...