Past Present Future

The End of the UK?


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This week David talks to the political scientist Mike Kenny about the possible fate of the United Kingdom. What makes the UK such an unusual political arrangement? How has it managed to hold together through war, economic decline, Brexit, Covid? What still threatens to break it apart?


Mike Kenny’s new book is Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK


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