Europe and the British Left

Owen Parker is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Government in Europe (2012), co-author of the textbook Politics in the European Union (2015) and, most recently, co-editor of Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery (2018). Matthew Louis Bishop is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Sheffield. His books include The Political Economy of Caribbean Development (2013) and Democratization: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition, with J. Grugel, 2014). Nicole Lindstrom is Professor of Politics at the University of York. She is the author of The Politics of Europeanization and Post-Socialist Transformations (2015) and Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions (2008).

• IntroductionPart I: Europe and the Progressive Dilemma: a conceptual framework1. The British Left for Market Europe2. The British Left against Europe3. The British Left for a Social EuropePart II: Europe and the Progressive Dilemma: four policy areas4. Trade and the European Single Market5. Industrial Policy6. Free Movement of People7. FinanceConclusions

This is a well-researched, realistic, and very fluent treatment of the past, present and future association of the UK with the rest of Europe, and of the attitude of the British left of all shapes, sizes and strategies towards our continent. It is filled with truths that point the UK towards a meaningful new economic, social, political, security and cultural relationship with the changing EU.