Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain

The Brexit referendum was a pivotal moment in British politics.Tribal Politics argues this is not only because it led to the UK's departure from the European Union, but because it created two new, powerful, and enduring political identities in the UK: Leavers and Remainers.These new identities rapidly became central to how people saw themselves, others, and the world around them, and they continue to underpin British politics.Tribal Politics explores how these identities emerged and why they have proved so resilient in the years since the 2016 vote.It does so by considering the Brexit divide as the result of three contingent factors: issue contestation (intense, high-stakes public conflict), issue expression (individual commitment through voting and political engagement), and issue alignment (the way Brexit cut across traditional party lines).This context transformed a policy question to which most people were largely indifferent into a deep-seated identity divide.Drawing on political