Marlow-Stevens, S and Hayton, R orcid.org/0000-0002-9899-0035 (2020) A Rhetorical Political Analysis of Theresa May’s Statecraft on Brexit. Parliamentary Affairs. ISSN 0031-2290
Abstract
By way of Rhetorical Political Analysis, this article argues that May’s rhetoric on Brexit undermined her statecraft and with it her capacity to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union. Utilising Jim Bulpitt’s (1986) conception of statecraft, our analysis reveals how May’s rhetoric prioritised party management and the politics of support, but in so doing yielded political argument hegemony to Brexiteers, impeding the passing of her Brexit deal and damaging her capacity for governing competence. We evidence these arguments by analysing the appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in May’s key speeches between July 2016 and July 2019, ranging from her first as Prime Minister to her last.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © the Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society; all rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Parliamentary Affairs. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Brexit; Theresa May; Rhetorical Political Analysis; Conservative party; Statecraft |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 May 2020 13:18 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2022 23:38 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/pa/gsaa014 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160124 |