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  • Professor Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London Professor
  • Anand Menon, Director of the UK in aChanging Europe
  • Pippa Crerar, Political Editor, Daily Mirror (chair)
  • Lisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan
  • Professor Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair inEuropean Institutions, LSE

Politicians and commentators are increasingly referring to the UK as “divided”, capturing a growing sense of social and political polarisation in our country, driven by the deep national split revealed and reinforced by Brexit.

But what’s really happening in the country –and in the Labour Party? Are we polarising, fragmenting or just falling apart?

Come and hear the actual evidence from the UK in a Changing Europe’s research on towns for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the Policy Institute’s review of polarisation trends in the UK for Engage Britain.

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