How Westminster Works ... and Why it (Still) Doesn't

Schedule

Mon Sep 28 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00
Location

Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Arts Two Building, Queen Mary University of London | London, EN

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Join the podcaster and journalist Ian Dunt to explore how Westminster is working today and how we can build something better for the future!
About this Event

In 2023, published an instant bestseller: . An excoriating analysis of dysfunctional institutions, incompetent ministers and disastrous policy-making, it anatomised the governing system from Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament to TV newsrooms, pressure-groups and the civil service.

Reviewers praised “A blistering account of the irrationality and sheer absurdity of Britain's dysfunctional political system” (Caroline Lucas); “an articulate wail of lament and a rousing call to arms” (Armando Iannucci); and “a brilliant, surgical book” (Isabel Hardman).

Three years later, Ian asks what has changed – and what is still going wrong. With a new Labour Prime Minister promising to fundamentally change where power lies in Britain, a fragmenting electorate and the rise of the Greens and Reform UK, how is Westminster working today – 10 years after the Brexit vote - and how can we build something better for the future?

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