ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the discursive uses of values in the speeches and statements of key Brexit actors in the UK and in EU institutions. The focus is on which values are deployed, by whom, to what ends and how these are manifested within wider strategies of legitimation. The analysis centres on how EU values are discursively constructed at an institutional level and how they are recontextualised by various political actors within the public discussion over Britain’s membership of the EU. Data is taken from EU leaders’ statements on Brexit and from a televised Brexit debate on BBC1.
