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From: Intelligence Squared <info®intelligencesquared.com> To: j [email protected]> Subject: Is the UK Facing a Political Identity Crisis? Last Few Tickets Remaining Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:56:41 +0000 inetugence - Thronvato to a menu view ttt utuwser Ara. IIw The Great Realignment Weds 13th Sept, 7pm, Emmanuel Centre Speakers It was 'back to school' for our MPs yesterday as they returned to G. Hilary Benn Parliament after the summer break. Next week, Intelligence Senior Labour Party MP representing Leeds Squared brings to our stage a stellar panel of senior MPs and Central. who has served in various Labour expert commentators to examine the current state of UK politics. cabinets and shadow cabinets since 2003, most As power has migrated to the more hardline elements of the two recently as shadow foreign secretary. He is main parties, where does that leave the millions of centrist voters currently chair of the Brexit Select Committee. who are feeling politically homeless? And how will the country His speech on military intervention in Syria was deal with the new alignments of metropolitan liberals versus the described as 'one of the truly great speeches in 'left behinds', graduates versus the uneducated, the young against Commons history. the old, which revealed themselves so clearly in the vote for Brexit? Kenneth Clarke Former chancellor under John Major who has Coming to our stage to delve into these issues and bring us the also served in various Conservative insiders' perspectives will be Ken Clarke, the most senior governments as home secretary, Lord Conservative voice in Parliament; Hilary Benn. Labour MP and Chancellor and justice secretary, education Chair of the Brexit Select Committee: and Helen Lewis. deputy secretary and health secretary. He was made editor at the New Statesman and prominent voice on the left. 'Father of the House' earlier this year as Alongside them will be David Goodhart, author of one of the parliament's longest-serving MP, representing most talked about analyses of post-Brexit Britain, and Anand the constituency of Rushcliffe since 1970. A Menon, a leading academic thinker on Britain's fractious relations staunch Remainer, he was the sole with the EU. In the chair will be Stephen Sackur, one of the Conservative MP to vote against article 50. BBC's most highly regarded journalistic heavyweights. David Goodhart Looming over the current turmoil is the biggest question of all: Founding editor of Prospect magazine who is What kind of Britain do we want to live in? What are the values currently head of the Demography, Immigration that should hold together our society? and Integration Unit at the think tank Policy Exchange. His recent book The Road to Come to the Emmanuel Centre on September 13th and hear the Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future country's most senior politicians and original thinkers discuss the of Politics is one of the most influential post- new political realities. Brexit analyses and was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. His previous book The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration was runner-up for the Orwell Prize in 2014 and was a finalist for 'Political Book of the Year' in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards. EFTA00627143  Helen Lewis Deputy editor at the New Statesman and prominent journalist on the left, who also writes a weekly technology column for the Sunday Times magazine and has written for the Financial Times and New York Times. Anand Menon Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London. and Director of UK in a Changing Europe, an authoritative, non- partisan initiative researching the complex relationship between the UK and the European Union. Chair ;!‘.• Stephen Sackur Award-winning broadcaster and presenter of HARDtalk, BBC World News' flagship current affairs interview programme. He has interviewed major international figures, from Al Gore to Hugo Chavez to Marine Le Pen. aiNICCDOOK v I WITICr c ,•..;ta009let FA T.:1111Wlt bounacroua Intelligence Squared is proudly supported by its media partner VANITY FAIR I insubsenho Intelligence' Ltd , Newcombe House, 45 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3LQ Copyright © Intelligence' Ltd. All rights reserved. EFTA00627144