Generation Brexit officially launches in six new languages

Today Generation Brexit officially launches in six new languages - German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Greek. With our new language sections, the Generation Brexit project becomes the only pan-European Brexit project of its type. We want to hear from YOU, in your language. After you set up an account (top right side of the page), you can either come ..

The EU deal: expert commentary

The PM has emerged from the European Council summit with a deal. LSE BrexitVote looks at what academic experts and think-tanks are saying about i

The UK renegotiation deal: what’s the verdict?

LSE BrexitVote looks at what academics, think-tanks and commentators are saying about the draft text of the dea

Read our new ebook by the LSE’s Frank Vibert

After promising the British public a referendum on whether to stay in the EU, David Cameron is currently trying to renegotiate the terms of the UK’s membership. His increasingly Eurosceptical party and a press that is often hostile towards the European Union makes the task a particularly challenging one. In this series of five essays, Frank Vibert, a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, draws on his experience as a founder director of the European Policy Forum to analyse the five strands of Cameron’s renegotiation strategy. He concludes that – if he succeeds – the Prime Minister’s approach may lead member states and Brussels institutions to move away from their current strategy of stressing EU citizens’ rights, rather than their consent

Referendum Night with the LSE

Join us at the London School of Economics and Political Science to follow the latest developments with our expert

What now? Our guide to Britain’s future outside the EU

For those readers wondering what Nicholas Barr, who wrote our very popular Letter to friends, is thinking, it’s this

Brain indices of disagreement with one's social values predict EU referendum voting behavior

Pre-electoral surveys typically attempt, and sometimes fail, to predict voting behavior on the basis of explicit measures of agreement or disagreement with a candidate or political position. Here, we assessed whether a specific brain signature of disagreement with one's social values, the event-related potential component N400, could be predictive of voting behavior. We examined this possibility in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom. In the five weeks preceding the referendum, we recorded the N400 while participants with different vote intentions expressed their agreement or disagreement with pro- and against-EU statements. We showed that the N400 responded to statements incongruent with one's view regarding the EU. Crucially, this effect predicted actual voting behavior in decided as well as undecided voters. The N400 was a better predictor of voting choice than an explicit index of preference based on the behavioral responses. Our findings demonstrate that well-defined patterns of brain activity can forecast future voting behavior

Sir Vince Cable: We need to get organised quickly over our EU exit

Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, advises planning ahead for Brexit in The Yorkshire Post, and highlights BCU’s work with the Combined Authority as a positive example