Brexit: Analysing Britain’s political and geostrategic considerations

Figures & data

Figure 1. A cartoon by sir David low titled as “progress to liberty—Amritsar style” originally published in December 1919 in the star newspaper (Cartoon published in 1919 commenting on events at Amritsar, 1919)

Table 1. British government (office for national statistics) (Corps, 2020)

Country of birth of mother	All ages	Under 20	20 to 29	30 to 39	40 and over
United Kingdom	53.8	11.0	65.2	80.7	13.9
Total outside United Kingdom	71.9	14.4	90.2	91.4	22.9
European Union (EU)	64.4	23.9	76.2	77.8	21.6
Rest of Europe (non EU)	92.7	13.8	144.0	102.6	22.6
Africa	86.3	6.2	136.0	110.9	31.3
The Americas and the Caribbean	56.4	10.0	49.7	86.0	22.2
Middle East and Asia	77.7	6.7	104.8	100.2	20.3
Antarctica and Oceania	44.5	0.5	21.2	88.2	19.8

Figure 2. The recent survey on Scotland’s independence (Russell, 2020)

Figure 3. The illustrated GIUK gap (Mikkola, 2019, p. 5)

Figure 4. Defence spending in Europe in 2017 (The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2018, p. 70)

Cartoon published in 1919 commenting on events at Amritsar. (1919, December). Accesssed October 11, 2020, from The National Archives website: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/empire/g3/cs3/g3cs3s1.htm

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