The UK in a Changing Europe Podcast

What does the general election tell us about the stability of the British two-party system? Will Brexit rise again as an issue on the political agenda? And can smaller parties ever thrive in coalition governments?

In the first episode of The UK in a Changing Europe podcast, Professor Anand Menon discusses these questions and much more with Dr Alan Wager, Senior Analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and the author of ‘Cross-Party Politics in Britain, 1945-2019’.

This week, UKICE Deputy Director Professor Paula Surridge talks to Professor Will Jennings (Associate Dean Research & Enterprise, University of Southampton) and Dr Jamie Furlong (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, University of Westminster) about their new book, 'The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales'. They discuss the concept of a ‘Blue Wall’, how place-based factors can explain unusual political characteristics and which results they think are going to capture the story of the 2024 UK general election.

On this week's special episode of UKICE (I Tell), Professor Anand Menon talks to UKICE Senior Fellow Professor Rob Ford and Sophie Stowers from our research team about the upcoming general election. They discuss the challenges facing a potential Labour government, the extent to which campaigns influence election outcomes, and the most interesting seats to watch.

On this week's episode of UKICE (I Tell), UKICE Senior Fellow Jill Rutter interviews Dmitry Grozoubinski, former Australian trade negotiator and diplomat and current Executive Director of the Geneva Trade Platform. They talk about Dmitry's new book, 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade... and What You Need to Know About It', his insights from having trained UK trade negotiators after Brexit and how power differences play out in trade negotiations.

'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' by Dmitry Grozoubinski is available to order from Canbury Press: https://www.canburypress.com/collections/frontpage/products/why-politicians-lie-about-trade-by-dmitry-grozoubinski-isbn-9781914487118

On this special episode of UKICE (I Tell), we have a live recording of our latest Unlocked event with Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, which took place on 15 May.

One of the few northern MPs to retain her seat as Labour’s Red Wall crumbled in 2019, she argued that the party needed to “change or die” when she stood to be leader. She has since outlined how Britain could rethink its domestic and global agenda for the modern age in her book All In. With geopolitics increasingly affecting domestic politics, her work as Shadow Minister for International Development is helping to shape Labour’s new message.

Lisa Nandy joined Professor Anand Menon to reflect on her political career, how Britain can heal the post-Brexit divisions and how a potential Labour Government would differ from the Conservatives in its approach to international development.

You can watch the event on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7-IRBq7ChI

On this special episode of UKICE (I Tell), we have a live recording of our latest Unlocked event with the “doyen of British elections”, Sir John Curtice.

Sir John needs little introduction to followers of British politics, as one of the UK’s best-known political scientists and the man who guides the nation through election nights for the BBC. Recently he calculated that on current polling, the Labour Party have a 99% chance of forming the next government.

With the election looming, Sir John reflects on historic election shocks such as 1992, through to the changes of government in 1997 and 2010. He also offers an insight into what it is like to crunch the numbers on polling day while the nation awaits the exit poll.

You can watch the event on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4C4fAZMJW4

On this episode of UKICE (I Tell), Professor Sarah Hall talks to Professor Catherine Barnard (Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe & Professor of EU Law and Employment Law, University of Cambridge) and Fiona Costello (Research Associate, University of Cambridge) about their new book titled "Low-paid EU migrant workers: the house, the street, the town". They discuss the critical issues surrounding the employment, housing, welfare and health of the EU migrant population in Great Yarmouth and what these tell us about how governments should design policy for migrant communities.

On this week's episode of UKICE (I Tell), Professor Sarah Hall talks to Professor Jonathan White, Professor of Politics and Deputy Head of the European Institute at the London School of Economics about his new book, In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea, the relationship between technology and democracy, his thoughts on direct democracy and much more.

On this episode of UKICE (I Tell), Professor Anand Menon talked to Dr Hannah Ritchie, Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the University of Oxford and Lead Researcher at Our World in Data. Dr Ritchie discussed her new book, Not the End of the World, reasons to be optimistic in the fight against the climate emergency and why 'doomsday narratives' inhibit progress.

On this special episode of UKICE (I Tell), we have a live recording of our latest Unlocked event with Deputy Chairman of the Conservative One Nation group, MP for Boston and Skegness and former Technology Editor of the Daily Telegraph, Matt Warman. Matt sat down with Professor Anand Menon to discuss his views on the Government’s Rwanda Bill, if Rishi Sunak can ‘stop the boats’, his party’s chances as we head toward the next election, and whether the future of the Conservative Party lies in the centre ground of politics.

You can watch the event on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG-fW18RI-o