Hertford Conversation: Saving Britain: What Europe Does For Us and How to Keep the Best of It

23 March 2018

Oxford Literary Festival

10.00 Friday, 23 March 2018 in the Sheldonian Theatre

Principal of Hertford and former editor of the Observer Will Hutton and Labour politician Lord Andrew Adonis look at how Britain benefits from the EU, show how those benefits might be kept and explain why the UK must improve living standards for those in the poorest parts of the country.

Hutton and Adonis have collaborated on a new book Saving Britain. They say the EU is a success story despite its frailties. It has guaranteed fundamental human freedoms and provided economic prosperity and order. They argue that Britain is abandoning four centuries of being part of the European diplomatic order for illusory gains and actual losses.

Will Hutton is Principal of Hertford College and a columnist for the Observer, of which he was editor and editor-in-chief for four years.  Andrew Adonis is a Labour peer, former Financial Times and Observer journalist and former Secretary of State for Transport. He recently resigned as chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission partly to leave him free to oppose the European Union Withdrawal Bill in the Lords.

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