Leonardo Carella

Leonardo Carella is a doctoral candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford, where he conducts quantitative research on public opinion and political sociology. He has a keen interest in British and European politics, and tweets (too much) about it at @leonardocarella.

The pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament: a slow-motion confrontation with London

Leonardo Carella May 12, 2021

On May 6, 2021, voters in Scotland’s parliamentary election delivered a majority for parties that advocate the country’s independence from the United Kingdom. While the balance of power in Holyrood – the seat of the Scottish parliament in…

Britain’s new relationship with the EU: politics of resentment

Leonardo Carella Mar 1, 2021

The UK and the EU are so invested in mutually incompatible projects – assertion of national sovereignty and supranational integration – that they keep measuring their own success against the other’s failure. The legal framework agreed by…

Britain negotiates a precarious New Normal amid daunting policy challenges

Leonardo Carella Sep 19, 2020

September has found Britain in a jittery mood. After the intense first wave of COVID-19 relented over the summer, the past two weeks have seen the number of cases rise back up to over 3,000 per day. The timing of the uptick is particularly…

Covid-19: What went wrong in Britain

Leonardo Carella Jun 25, 2020

The British government did not have a “good crisis”. On a raft of metrics, the UK’s coronavirus outbreak ranks among the worst in Europe, if the not the worst altogether. To date, official counts have recorded 300,000 coronavirus cases and…