The Cost of Broken Promises or How Policy Failure Can Help Win Elections - Immigration and the 2015 UK General Election

Do policy failures inevitably lead to electoral punishment? This paper examines the role of immigration in the 2015 UK general election to argue that policy failure can be electorally successful. In the 2010 election, the Conservatives had committed to reduce net migration to under one hundred thous...

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Main Author: James Hampshire
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2015-12-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/560
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