‘Change Britain, Stop Brexit’ by Will Hutton.
Co-hosted by Progressive Economy Forum (PEF) and SOAS
The lecture will take place on the 9th October at 7pm in SOAS’s Brunei Lecture Theatre.
To register your attendance please go to the EventBrite page.
Any questions please contact: mdavies@progressiveeconomyforum.com or go to the PEF website

The EU referendum result exposed deep economic and social divisions in our society, and this was decisive in persuading millions to vote against the status quo. Leave voters were right; this status quo is insupportable, and too many of our fellow citizens are leading lives haunted by lack of income and opportunity. But the answer was never to blame the EU and immigration, the unholy if politically adept message of Leavers. Rather, our problems have been firmly minted at home by a succession of policy failures that go back decades.

Building on the themes of his most recent book Saving Britain: How We Can Prosper in a New European Future (with Andrew Adonis), in this lecture Will Hutton sets out an agenda to repurpose British companies and the financial system, to address inequality at root by re-enfranchising workers, to remake a shattered social contract and to rebuild the British polity around the principles of decentralisation, commitment to the creation of public value and genuine accountability. Only thus can Britain full-heartedly take its place as a full member of the EU – and seize the opportunities afforded by new technologies and globalisation.