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UK Politics Roundup: Who Will Win the Next General Election?

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Is the UK’s 2024 general election a foregone conclusion, with the Labour Party some 20 points ahead in the opinion polls?

Is the UK’s 2024 general election a foregone conclusion, with the Labour Party some 20 points ahead in the opinion polls? Can Rishi Sunak turn around the economy in time? Is there enough difference between the two main parties on the issues that voters care most about – the cost of living crisis, the NHS and immigration? As both parties tilt more to the right to win votes, is now a bad time for progressives in Britain? 

In April 2023 political scientist Matthew Goodwin and journalist Philip Collins came to Intelligence Squared to discuss the political landscape in the UK and what each party needs to do to secure victory in just over a year’s time. 

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UK Politics Roundup: Who Will Win the Next General Election?

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Speakers for the motion

  • Matthew Goodwin

    Professor of Politics at the University of Kent and author of Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

  • Philip Collins

    Columnist for the Evening Standard and former chief speechwriter to Tony Blair

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  • Philippa Thomas

    Journalist and academic, who has anchored daily live news shows on World TV and the BBC News Channel

Speakers

Speakers

Matthew Goodwin

Professor of Politics at the University of Kent and author of Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

Professor of Politics at the University of Kent and author of four books, including the Sunday Times bestseller National Populism. He appears regularly in print and broadcast media including The Sunday Times and the BBC. Goodwin has advised more than 200 organisations on political issues. His new book is Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics.  

Philip Collins

Columnist for the Evening Standard and former chief speechwriter to Tony Blair

Columnist for the Evening Standard, Associate Professor in Rhetoric at the LSE and the founder and writer-in-chief of The Draft. He wrote for The Times for a decade and is a former chief speechwriter to the prime minister Tony Blair.
Chair

Philippa Thomas

Journalist and academic, who has anchored daily live news shows on World TV and the BBC News Channel

Journalist and academic, known for her high-profile broadcasting career with BBC News. Most recently, Philippa anchored daily live news shows on World TV and the BBC News Channel. She spent many years as a foreign correspondent based in Washington DC and before that was a political correspondent at Westminster. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Thomas has chaired the independent Trust in News conference, focusing on information warfare in Ukraine and beyond, and later in May she will be on stage at the Oslo Freedom Forum interviewing Amnesty International Secretary-general Agnes Callamard about the ways the world has responded – and failed to respond – to the crisis in Ukraine.