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In this final chapter we offer a brief conclusion summarising the main arguments presented in the book. We make a case in the book for acknowledging the importance of classes and class experience in influencing the nature of national identities in multinational Britain. Changes in social and economic structures, and in capitalism, have left some classes, remnants of classes and fractions of classes resentful and disenchanted with mainstream politics. These social changes have led in different directions in England, Wales and Scotland. Most notably, Scotland has avoided a resentful nationalism by drawing those voters who abandoned the Labour Party towards a ‘progressive nationalism’.
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Mann, R., Fenton, S. (2017). Conclusion. In: Nation, Class and Resentment. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46674-7_7
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