Time: 12:00 - 2:00pm
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Hilary Benn is Labour MP for Leeds Central. He has served as Secretary of State for International Development, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Shadow Foreign Secretary, and was the inaugural chair of the parliamentary Select Committee for Exiting the European Union.
Caroline Lucas is MP for Brighton Pavilion and Britain’s only Green Party MP. She led the party from 2008 to 2012 and was co-leader from 2016 to 2018. She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament for South-East England from 1999 to 2010.
David Runciman is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. His many books and publications include How Democracy Ends (2018) and The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present (2013). He hosts the Talking Politics podcast with Helen Thompson, and is a Director of the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy and Democracy Project.
Rebecca Willis is a Professor in Practice and Fellow in Energy and Climate Governance at the Lancaster Environment Centre. She has served as a lead advisor to the Climate Assembly UK and was Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission from 2004 to 2011. Her book, Too Hot to Handle: The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change, was published in 2020.
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