In most countries Parliamentary immunity protects lawmakers from civil or criminal charges while in office, and it shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical analysis in the literature of the impact of Parliamentary...

The sequence of events which followed the signature of the Rome treaty in 2004 demonstrated the uncertainties of reconciling pan European policy objectives with national political opinion. Public opinion in the United Kingdom was cautiously handled by ministers, taking care to avoid the issue...

A discussion of the recent referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) on membership of the European Union (EU) and, in particular, to consider the immediate aftermath and longer-term implications of the decision to leave