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“Me and Brexit, or Nothing”: A French Perspective on Boris Johnson’s Victory

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When on 29 October 2019, late in the evening, Boris Johnson finally managed to get an election date passed by the Commons, I rushed to the laptop to write an article for my newspaper Libération. “Hurray, something has moved between the walls of Westminster, something has actually been decided.

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Delesalle-Stolper, S. (2022). “Me and Brexit, or Nothing”: A French Perspective on Boris Johnson’s Victory. In: Wring, D., Mortimore, R., Atkinson, S. (eds) Political Communication in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81406-9_7

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