The Eurosceptical Reader

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Martin Holmes

      Pages 1-9

3. The View from the Left

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Common Market

      • Hugh Gaitskell

      Pages 13-37

   3. The Common Market: Loss of Self-Government

      • Tony Benn

      Pages 38-41

   4. Speech to the Bruges Group, Reform Club, 24 July 1990

      • Peter Shore

      Pages 42-49

   5. The Labour Party and Europe

      • Chris Rowley

      Pages 50-71

4. The View from the Right

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Britain and Europe

      • Enoch Powell

      Pages 75-87

   3. The European Family of Nations

      • Margaret Thatcher

      Pages 88-96

   4. Selsdon Group Speech, 11 October 1994

      • Norman Lamont

      Pages 97-109

   5. The Conservative Party and Europe

      • Martin Holmes

      Pages 110-125

5. Eurosceptical Political Economy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Trade Policy of the European Community

      • Brian Hindley

      Pages 129-148

   3. The Price of Monetary Unification

      • Patrick Minford

      Pages 149-166

   4. Britain and the European Community: Past, Present… and an Unravelling Future?

      • Brian Burkitt, Mark Baimbridge

      Pages 167-185

   5. Europe and Regulation — The New Totalitarianism

      • Christopher Booker

      Pages 186-204

   6. Agricultural Policy by the Year 2000 and its Effects

      • Richard Howarth

      Pages 205-218

   7. Worlds Apart?

      • Bill Jamieson

      Pages 219-258

6. Historical and Constitutional Euroscepticism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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The Eurosceptical Reader is the authoritative guide to the compelling arguments against European integration. The book sets out to dispel the myth which has grown up over the past thirty years that Britain's Eurosceptics are backward-looking, nationalistic, even xenophobic 'Little Englanders'. In reality, as this collection of articles and speeches illustrates, the Eurosceptical case has been anything other than introverted and obsessed with the past. Eurosceptics have always looked to the wider world beyond Europe not to a nostalgic British isolation. Whether from within the two main parties or from academia and journalism, the Eurosceptical case has become both intellectually powerful and politically persuasive. The all-star cast provides contemporary analysis to supplement classic contributions from Hugh Gaitskell, Margaret Thatcher, Enoch Powell, Tony Benn and others.

• Europe
• European Integration
• monetary policy
• British Politics
• european union politics

' A gloriously diverse collectin of articles and speeches spanning over 50 years...especially popular among those students of politics who prefer reading the speaches of Lady Thatcher and Hugh Gaitskell on Europe to listening to the agendas espoused by most of their dons.' - The European Journal

• St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK

  Martin Holmes

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