Abstract
AbstractOstensibly motivated by ‘taking back control’, is Brexit an opportunity to enhance the UK's capacity for self‐government? If driven by an aspiration to maximise the central state's governing autonomy, it confronts a paradox: governance structures at once enable action and constrain it. Exploring this paradox of structure, this article sets Brexit in long‐term perspective. As well as reshaping its external relations, Brexit inevitably unsettles the UK's internal structures, not least in (partly) disentangling he UK state and organised civil society from EU institutions and processes. Equally, those internal structures were themselves rarely static. Brexit has complicated the processes of their flux. The article introduces a symposium which addresses issues of this kind in three important domains: feminist civil society organisations (Minto), Westminster's role and scrutiny of European affairs (Cygan, Lynch and Whitaker) and the legal rights and access to justice of EU migrants under English law (Barnard and Fraser Burton).
Highlights
The process of leaving the European Union (EU) has triggered important changes in UK society, in its politics, legal systems and economy
Even if we were able to factor out the confounding consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and set aside Brexit’s contentious character, this complexity would still make it unlikely we will ever get to a definitive understanding of the impacts on the UK of leaving on the EU
All three are written by authors who have been closely engaged in tracing Brexit processes – the extraordinary social, political and legal events that marked society, politics and the law across the UK from 2016 to the present day
Summary
The process of leaving the European Union (EU) has triggered important changes in UK society, in its politics, legal systems and economy. Turn they address the structured relationships between feminist civil society organizations (CSOs) across the UK with their sister CSOs across Europe and at the EU level, the changing role of the Westminster Parliament through and after Brexit and challenges posed for rule of law in enabling access to justice for migrant workers.
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