The short-lived hope for contagion: Brexit in social media communication of the populist right

Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?

“…As Miró et al. ( 2024 ) show, several of them demanded such a referendum right after the UK results came out.…”

“…Even though in the immediate aftermath of the referendum several of these parties called for similar votes in their own countries, attrition was high: just one year later, their communication on social media was already much less concerned with the demand for a referendum and by the time the UK left, they had abandoned the EU exit bandwagon (Miró et al. 2024 ). The turnarounds of the French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen and the Italian Lega leader, Matteo Salvini, were particularly noticeable.…”

“…Miró et al . ( 2024 ) instead focus on radical right parties, analysing Twitter data to assess their activity on Brexit and the frames they use to discuss it. They show that few parties, such as the Italian Lega, were preoccupied with it at any length and in triumphant tones, urging for more exits elsewhere.…”