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The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) is the start of a new relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU). As the consequences of Brexit unfold, there will be pressure to change the TCA, either in a "softer" or "harder" direction. To determine the potential medium-term direction of the EU–UK relationship, we conducted a conjoint survey experiment with a sample of British voters, where we asked them to choose between different hypothetical package deals. When faced with such choices, British citizens overall mostly support a softer relationship in which the UK applies EU regulatory standards in return for greater access to the single market. However, Leave voters most often support a much harder trade-off of full regulatory sovereignty but continued restrictions on UK exports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the authors describe an flexible database that provides information on members of the European Parliament dating back to 1979. A number of research features have been built into the new system including the ability to find information on the political party affiliation on individual members, the names of the committees on which they served, their leadership roles and the delegations to which they were assigned. It is noted that this database will reduce costs associated with research.