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PAIS PhD Candidate, Columba Achilleos-Sarll, has written a blog for UCL titled Deal or No Deal? The Hypermasculinity of the ‘Businessperson as Leader’ Rhetoric.

Theresa May and other ministers have repeatedly claimed that no deal is better than a bad deal. Columba Achilleos-Sarll argues that the discourse of both the referendum campaign and subsequent Brexit debates have been hypermasculine in nature. She points out that this has a number of undesirable consequences, such as reinforcing gendered stereotypes about successful political leadership and foreign policy.

You can read the whole piece on the UCL Brexit Blog.