Politics requires complex and ongoing engagement by all of us. There are lots of elements that hang together. The Brexit process has really highlighted that whatever we decide to do that has knock-on consequences and those knock-on consequences have knock-on consequences of their own which might come back and affect our original decision. Everything is connected and we are never going to have something that's going to make everybody happy.

Simon Usherwood

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Simon Usherwood is a Professor of Politics & International Studies at the Open University, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Surrey's Centre for Britain & Europe and a National Teaching Fellow. Simon coauthored (along with John Pindar) The European Union: A Very Short Introduction. He recently coedited (along with Agnès Alexandre-Collier and Pauline Schnapper) The Nested Games of Brexit.

Key Highlights

• Introduction - 0:48
• The Rise of Boris Johnson - 3:44
• Why Boris Johnson Resigned - 16:40
• What are Nested Games - 23:48
• Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak - 31:55
• What Have we Learned about Democracy? 40:23

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European Union: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by John Pindar and Simon Usherwood

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