This paper examines the crisis of a common European identity in Andrew Marr’s novel, Head of State. Drawing on Karl Marx’s belief that life is materialistic; the article explores how Britain’s socio-economic crisis triggers the Britons’ animosity toward a common European socio-political identity. Brexit referendum emerged at a moment of economic recession leading to socio-political tensions between the Europhiles and the Eurosceptics in Britain and the European countries. In considering these, the article analyses Marr’s fiction as it echoes British social and political struggles within the European Union project. Specifically, the paper explores how the socio-economic deterioration of the country perpetuates a rejection of a common European political space. This allows for a more materialistic reading of contradictions inside the British state-territory to sort out Brexit vote as dialectical struggles between opposing political economic forces in Marr’s fiction.