The Impact of Europe on British Politics
Local Government & devolved governments
John Major & the Maastricht Treaty
Labour accepts Europe – the new Labour Governments 1997-2010
The European system that Britain joined in 1972, and decided to leave in 2016, has changed considerably since then but the basic components are still the same:-
On the surface the EU looks like a state with a Parliament, a Constitutional Court, the Council as the Cabinet and the Commission as the bureaucracy but, in practice, it is a highly decentralised system with influence spread throughout the system.
