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Index
Abbott, Diane here
Adams, Gerry here, here
Another Europe is Possible here
approximators here
Article 50 of Treaty of Lisbon here, here, here
Attlee, Clement here
Banks, Aaron here
Barnes, Julian here
Batten, Gerrard here
Beckett, Margaret here
Benn, Hilary here, here
Benn, Tony here
Berlusconi, Silvio here
Blair, Tony here, here, here
Bloom, Godfrey here
Blunkett, David here
British National Party (BNP) here
Brown, Gordon here
Bush, George W. here
Calais Jungle here, here, here
Callaghan, Jim here
Cameron, David here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here danger of low voter turnout here
individual voter registration here
reasons for allowing referendum here
risk of war in Europe here
Carswell, Douglas here
Castle, Barbara here
Chilton, Brendan here
Chirac Jacques here
Clegg, Nick here
cohortative mood here exhortative subjunctives here
Common Agricultural Policy here, here
Common Market see European Economic Community
Cooper Yvette here
Co-operative Principle here Maxims of Manner, Quality, Quantity and Relation here, here
coordination here syntactic parallelism here
Congdon, Tim here
Corbyn, Jeremy here, here alleged unelectability here, here, here
attacks by tabloid press here, here
For the many not the few here
parodies of tabloid attacks here
unconvincing Remain campaign here
Council of Europe here
Cox, Jo here, here
Cresson, Édith here
Cummings, Dominic here
Curtice, John here
Dacre, Paul here, here
Dad’s Army here
Davidson, Ruth here
Davis, David here, here
Dawkins, Richard here
De Gaulle, Charles here
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) here, here, here
Die Welt here
Dijsselbloem, Jeroen here
Dorfman, Lloyd here
Draghi, Mario here
Duncan Smith, Iain here, here
Eagle, Angela here
English Defence League (EDL) here
Euromyths here
European Commission here, here, here, here
European Council here, here
European Court of Justice here
European Currency Unit (ECU) here
European Economic Community (EEC) here, here, here, here
European Parliament here
Eustice, George here
Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) here
factive verbs here, here
Fallon, Michael here
Farage, Nigel here, here, here, here, here countering accusations of racism here
distancing UKIP from Front National here
Independence Day here
victory declaration here
Foot, Michael here
Francken, Theo here
Gaitskell, Hugh here
Galloway, George here
Good Friday Agreement here, here
Gorbachev, Mikhael here
Gove, Michael here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Grayling, Chris here
Hacked Off here
Hague, William here
Hammond, Philip here, here
Hannan, Daniel here
Harding, David here
Hargreaves, Peter here
Harmsworth, Harold see Lord Rothermere
Hattersley, Roy here, here
Heath, Edward here, here, here
hedging here, here, here
Hodge, Margaret here
Hollande, François here, here
hypotaxis see subordination
imperatives here
implicature here, here, here, here, here
inclusive and exclusive we here, here, here
Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) here, here, here, here
Jenkins, Roy here
Johnson, Boris here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here personal attacks here
praise for Sun readers here
Jones, Toby here
Juncker, Jean-Claude here, here, here, here, here, here
jussives here
Kinnock, Neil here, here, here, here
Lagarde, Christine here
Law, Jude here
Le Pen, Marine here
lexical verbs here
lexit here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Lisbon Treaty here
Lord Rothermere here, here
Lucas, Caroline here
Macmillan, Harold here
Macron, Emmanuel here
Major, John here, here, here, here
Mandelson, (Lord) Peter here, here
Martin, Tim here
May, Theresa here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ here
post-election pressure for soft Brexit here
reasons for calling general election here, here
‘strong and stable leadership’ here
McDonnell, John here, here
Merkel, Angela here, here, here, here
Messina, Jim here
metalingual glosses here
modality here, here boulomaic modality here
deontic modality here
dynamic modality here
epistemic modality here, here
expressive modality here
relational modality here
Momentum here
Monnet, Jean here
Movimento Cinque Stelle here
Murdoch, Rupert here, here, here, here
naturalization here, here
News Corporation here
nominalization here
non-factive verbs here
Norway relationship here, here
Obama, Barack here
Odell, Tom here
Osborne, George here, here, here
parataxis see coordination
Patel, Priti here, here, here
Pompidou, Georges here
post-truth here, here
Powell, Enoch here
presupposition here, here change-of-state verbs here
logical presuppositions here
Project Fear here, here, here
Rees-Mogg, Jacob here, here
Rudd, Amber here
Sainsbury, (Lord) David here
Santer, Jacques here
Scargill, Arthur here
Schäuble, Walter here
Speech Act Theory here
staycation here
Straw, Jack here
Straw, Will here
Stuart, Gisella here, here
Sturgeon, Nicola here, here, here
subjunctive mood here
subordination here syntactic hierarchy here
Thatcher, Margaret here, here, here, here Bruges speech here
clash with Jacques Delors here, here, here
relations with The Sun here
The Hateful Eight here
The Sun here hostility towards France and EU here
puns here, here, here
Thompson, Emma here
Tillmans, Wolfgang here
Treaty of Rome here, here
Tusk, Donald here, here
Ukraine here free trade deal with European Union here
Varoufakis, Yanis here, here
Wilson, Harold here, here, here
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