To discuss these worldwide trends, how to counter them, and how worried we should be about a populist rise in the UK, we are joined by three international experts:

• Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
• Rory Stewart, former Cabinet Minister and 2019 candidate for the Conservative Party leadership, now Senior Fellow at Yale University
• Professor Nadia Urbinati, author of Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy
• Chair: Professor Meg Russell, Director of the Constitution Unit.

Further Reading

• Anne Applebaum - How my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit
• Anne Applebaum - How to beat populists when facts don't matter
• Rory Stewart - What is wrong with us?
• Nadia Urbinati  - Populism? It’s not fascism, and also democracies Are “Elastic”
• Nadia Urbinati  - The pandemic hasn’t killed populism