A Rhetorical Political Analysis of Theresa May’s Statecraft on Brexit

Marlow-Stevens, Samuel ^[1] ; Hayton, Richard ^[1]
1. [1] University of Leeds
  
  University of Leeds
  
  Reino Unido
Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 74, Nº 4, 2021, págs. 871-889
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- 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.