Brexit is part and parcel of Britain's ongoing quest for national self-understanding

Marnie Howlett (LSE) asks whether Brexit should be viewed as "a simple matter of democratic politics" or a complex matter of national identity politics. She argues that while Brexit is often portrayed as the consequence of social issues, it appears that it is also a demonstration of how identity politics and, more specifically, national identity politics, have come to dictate much of inter-state relations today. In fact, she concludes that the UK will soon be in a position to decipher what a non-European British identity looks like.