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About Michael Kenny

Michael Kenny is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, and co-Investigator on the ESRC-funded project, Between Two Unions: the Constitutional Future of the Islands after Brexit.

The Union’s last premier?

July 29, 2019 by Michael Kenny Leave a Comment

‘Should Johnson stumble in any one of these minefields he will quickly find that his upbeat tone and soundbites about the ‘awesome foursome’ are far from enough to keep the union together’.

The English question resurfaces

February 12, 2017 by Michael Kenny Leave a Comment

EU flag altered to show indistinct map of the UK

“For the kinds of free trade arrangements which many Brexiteers appear to favour are exactly the forces that have opened up the chasms between capital city and provinces, and between the networked and the ‘left behind’ which have done so much to bring a disaffected, political Englishness into being.”

The triumph of EVEL: an historic watershed

November 2, 2015 by Michael Kenny Leave a Comment

The Commons vote to approve EVEL is likely to be followed by other constitutional innovations in the UK and its constituent nations given the powerful territorial passions and conflicts at work. A federal structure may not result.

EVEL: final answer to the West Lothian question?

July 5, 2015 by Michael Kenny Leave a Comment

EVEL is designed to bring Westminster up to speed with shifts in the national mood of the English but may set off a new Anglo-Scottish conflict

English nationalism: misreading the runes

May 21, 2015 by Michael Kenny Leave a Comment

Why Labour is wrong to blame English and Scottish nationalism for its defeat when it failed to grasp the importance of various questions of identity and democracy – and the Tories read the English mood better.

What the English think and feel about the Union

April 23, 2015 by Michael Kenny Leave a Comment

The election campaign has brought the issue of English attitudes towards their neighbours and the Union into sharp relief, with UKIP making much of socially conservative values. However, explains Michael Kenny, the reality is rather more complex.

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