Five years after Brexit and with an election looming, Britain’s political institutions are held in contempt by its people. Its major political traditions are plainly exhausted. The Union with Scotland and Northern Ireland is in doubt. Much of the UK’s stagnant economy is foreign-owned. Its imperial past is disgraced. Immigration is at unprecedented levels. Identity conflicts proliferate. Is a national politics possible in such circumstances?
Speakers
David Edgerton is Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London and author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
Tomiwa Owolade is author of This Is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter
Peter Ramsay is Professor of Law at LSE and author of Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit.
Chair: Professor Martin Loughlin