President Trump is in power once more. His victory is complete but the business of understanding just what happened has only just begun as we seek lessons – and warnings – for UK politics and this year’s European elections.

Why were the Democrats defeated? Is America’s surging inequality the root cause of President Trump’s victory? What connections can we draw between growing inequality and the populists’ clarion call for a “revolt against elites”?

In the second event in our series looking at the implications of another Trump term for the UK, we’ll explore the structural and economic dimensions of his win and the rise of populist politics more broadly, following our first event on the role played by culture-war issues like immigration.

Join the Policy Institute and the Fairness Foundation as we convene some of the leading thinkers and analysts who have studied the American campaign up close for a discussion about what is fuelling populist politics in America, what we can learn from what happened – and how the UK government should respond.

Speakers:

The Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and author of The Inequality of Wealth: Why it matters and how to fix it

Claire Ainsley, Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal, Progressive Policy Institute, and former Executive Director for Policy for Sir Keir Starmer
Hamida Ali, Head of Policy and Programmes, Future Governance Forum

Peter Hyman, former Senior Advisor to Sir Keir Starmer

Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield College, University of Oxford

Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London (chair)

The return of Trump (livestream)