UK intergovernmental relations: On state-form, sovereignty and Brexit

Minto, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0040-3198 and Wyn Jones, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7698-5959 2025. UK intergovernmental relations: On state-form, sovereignty and Brexit. Territory, Politics, Governance Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

This article contributes to scholarship on intergovernmental relations (IGR) and de-Europeanisation through analysis of IGR in the UK following devolution, pre and post-Brexit. We argue that incommensurable understandings of the post-devolution state at the central and devolved levels – and related, contradictory expectations about how IGR should operate – precludes the existence of any mutually satisfactory IGR arrangements in the UK. The state’s European Union membership nonetheless provided a means of partly mitigating the resulting tensions by underpinning a subset of IGR activity that was genuinely functional. Brexit has thus removed one of the means of ameliorating inter-territorial differences within the state.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Research Institutes & Centres > Wales Governance Centre (WGCES) Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics Schools > Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	2162-2671
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	29 March 2025
Date of Acceptance:	15 March 2025
Last Modified:	31 Mar 2025 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/177273

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