Can changes to British foreign policy be understood as an outcome of factional politics that divided the Conservative Party during the Brexit negotiations?
In Episode 5, the External is joined by Benjamin Martill, who argues that the defeat of Teresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement brought to power a pro-Brexit faction with a distinct foreign policy worldview and incentives to demonstrate a cleaner break from the European Union. We discuss the key insights from his recent article in the Journal of European Public Policy, "Withdrawal symptoms: party factions, political change and British foreign policy post-Brexit."
