The Centre on Constitutional Change Publications

This UK in a Changing Europe report is written by Professors Nicola McEwen and Katy Hayward.

An EU border across Britain: Scotland’s borders after Independence, considers the prospect of an independent Scotland within the European Union, not as a prediction, but to illustrate how Brexit has profoundly changed the context in which independence is contested and could be realised.

Authors:

• Nicola McEwen, University of Edinburgh
• Aileen McHarg, University of Durham
• Jo Hunt, Cardiff University
• Michael Dougan, University of Liverpool

The constitutional fall-out from the process of withdrawing from the European Union has been dramatic and wide-ranging. The focus of this article is the impact of withdrawal on devolution and the territorial constitution, through an examination of the market access principles that are at the core of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA).