The ultimate test for anti-Brexit MPs: will they resign their seats?

Swan, Sean (2016) The ultimate test for anti-Brexit MPs: will they resign their seats? [['eprint_typename_blog_post' not defined]]
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MPs who feel strongly enough about a particular issue – whether Heathrow expansion, the Anglo-Irish Agreement or increasing pre-trial detention – have sometimes resigned their seats and stood again as independents or for another party. Will anti-Brexit MPs adopt this strategy? Sean Swan says it is fraught with risks, but resigning en masse would be the only conclusive test of whether public opinion has switched to Remain.
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Departments LSE
Date Deposited 27 Jan 2017 08:45
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/69059

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