Simon Hix is the Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. Vincent Chow chats with him about the UK's relationship with the EU post-Brexit, the life of Harold Laski, being a public intellectual and the state of the political centre in Britain today.

Professor Hix is also Director of the LSE Institute of Public Affairs and Fellow of the British Academy as well as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has written several books on EU and comparative politics, including "What's Wrong With the EU and How to Fix It" (Polity, 2008). In 2008 he won the prestigious Fenno Prize from the American Political Science Association for his book (co-authored with Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland) "Democratic Politics in the European Parliament" (Cambridge, 2007).

Note: this was recorded before last Sunday's London Marathon, which Simon completed. His fundraising page is still live and can be found here: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=SimonHixHeadsTogether&pageUrl=1