Grant Number: ES/R000646/1 
Sponsor: Economic and Social Research Council
Project title: Parties, Parliament and the Brexit Process

The following files have been archived:
File name: 
MP_EU_Referendum_Positions.csv



File description 
This file provides details of the positions taken in the UK's 2016 referendum on EU membership by all Labour and Conservative MPs elected to the 2015-17 Parliament. It also includes data on the each MP's party, their year of birth, the year in which they were first elected, their constituency and the source of information for the referendum position.


Publications:

P. Lynch and R. Whitaker (2019) 'Select committees and Brexit: Parliamentary influence in a divisive policy area', Parliamentary Affairs, 72:4, pp. 923-944.

P. Lynch, R. Whitaker and A. Cygan (2019) 'Brexit and the UK Parliament: Challenges and Opportunities' in Thomas Christiansen and Diane Fromage (eds) Brexit and Democracy: The Role of Parliaments in the UK and European Union, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp.51-79.

P. Lynch and R. Whitaker (2018) 'All Brexiteers Now? Brexit, the Conservatives and Party Change', British Politics, 13:1, pp.31-47.