The impact of Euroscepticism on the transformation of the UK party system in the context of BREXIT

Abstract

The article describes the cause-and-effect relationship between the spread of Euroscepticism and the transformation of the UK party system, which is established on the basis of a political science analysis of the program documents of parliamentary and other political parties. It is noted that a number of British political parties have built their ideology on the key thesis of the need for the country to withdraw from the European Union. It is emphasized that the crisis social and economic migration phenomena in the European Union have created favourable conditions for the perception of Eurosceptic slogans by a significant part of society. At the same time, these actual circumstances have strengthened the disintegration vector, which is also due to the conservative political tradition historically inherent in British society and elites, expressed in the concept of parliamentary sovereignty of the UK, unlimited by joint acts of integration association.