The death and life of the center-left | LSE Event

Since the 1990s, progressive parties have tended to combine globalist neoliberal policies with avant-garde social views. Life steadily became more precarious for large numbers of working people, who lost confidence in traditional left-of-center parties. Economically stressed and culturally conservative lower- and middle-income voters found themselves no political champion and turned increasingly to the nationalist, authoritarian right. This trend is in drastic contrast to the economics of the postwar boom, when the center-left and center-right shared basic assumptions about how to manage and regulate capitalism. Global trade and migration expanded at a socially bearable pace that did not undermine national social contracts. The politics of that era produced economic security for ordinary people and strengthened democratic institutions. With the loss of confidence in both center-left parties and in democracy itself, what is a conceivable road back to building a society that is both dynamic and secure, and that restores a believable center-left? Speakers: Will Hutton Professor Robert Kuttner Chair: Professor Jonathan Hopkin #Politics #Events #London Full details/attend: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05/... To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate. Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photo https://unsplash.com/photos/low-light... by Joakim Honkasalo https://unsplash.com/@jhonkasalo on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/license Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/signup