School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Paul Copeland, How three decades of negative press sunk the Remain campaign

3 March 2017

Stephen Bush writes about a new QMUL study that shows how from 1974 to 2013, coverage of the European Union was transformed. Led by Dr Paul Copeland the research reveals that negative coverage of the European Union in UK newspapers increased from 24 per cent to 45 per cent over forty years post-accession.
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