Abstract
Euroscepticism of the Conservative Party and the Labour Party during the 2015 general election campaign
Highlights
The United Kingdom’s opposition to certain features of the European integration process had been present with varying degrees of intensity since the negotiations on the European Coal and Steel Community
It seems appropriate to complement it by using the framework of Søren Riishøj (2007), where Euroscepticism is not classified on basis of intensity, but according to the specific areas in which criticism is expressed
Because of the criticism made on this typology, the following will be eliminated: practice-based, partybased, cleavage-based Euroscepticism and since the UK had been a member of the EC/EU since 1973, it makes no sense to search for manifestations of experiencebased Euroscepticism
Summary
The United Kingdom’s opposition to certain features of the European integration process had been present with varying degrees of intensity since the negotiations on the European Coal and Steel Community. A long-term dissatisfaction with the level of integration, the emergence of other political rivals and internal pressures within the Conservative Party led to David Cameron’s referendum pledge in 2013. Euroscepticism of the Conservative Party and the Labour Party | 243 election, Cameron promised to negotiate revised EU membership terms and subsequently call an in/out referendum. He managed to negotiate this revision with European partners, British voters chose to leave in June 2016. This article will provide a case-oriented empirical analysis of this final stage of British partisan Euroscepticism by using a combinatory theoretical approach to stances during the 2015 election campaign period
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