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23 February 2021 at 18.00
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Finding ‘Global Britain’: From political slogan to hard economic policy choices
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The forty-eighth Strand Group event launching a new paper for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government took place on Tuesday 23rd February.
With Britain now at a post-Brexit crossroads, can the UK government turn Global Britain from a political slogan to an economic policy reality. In their latest paper on post-Brexit Britain, the authors identify five areas of choices for the UK government: trade, regulation, migration, “levelling up” and the UK’s global narrative.
The event took place on Tuesday 23 February at 6.00-7.30pm.
Paper authors:
- Ed Balls, Professor of Political Economy, King’s College, London and Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
- Nyasha Weinberg, Harvard Kennedy School MPP 2017
- Jessica Redmond, Harvard Kennedy School MPP 2022
- Sechi Kailasa, Harvard Kennedy School MPA 2022
- Tommaso Cariati, Stanford-Harvard Kennedy School MBA-MPA 2021
Discussants
- Lord Jo Johnson, King’s College Professor and former Cabinet Minister
- Lord Nicholas Macpherson, King’s College Visiting Professor and former Treasury Permanent Secretary
- Emily Thornberry, MP and Shadow Trade Minister
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Queen Mary
The thirty-first meeting of the Mile End Group brought together a panel of Lord Donoughue, Baroness Williams, Lord McNally, Adam Raphael, William Keegan, Hugh Stephenson, Peter Jay and Sir Alan Bailey to discuss the IMF crisis in 1976
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Queen Mary
Editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger and Professor Colin Seymour-Ure gave the thirtieth Mile End Group on ‘Power, Premiers and the Press’
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Queen Mary, Great Hall
At the twenty-ninth meeting of the Mile End Group Professor Peter Hennessy launched his book ‘Having It So Good: Britain In The Fifties’ he was introduced by the first man to run the sub-four minute mile Sir Roger Bannister
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Queen Mary
Sir Kevin Tebbit, former Permanent Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence discussed the long-term context of the terrorist challenge at the twenty-eight meeting of the Mile End Group
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Queen Mary
At the twenty-sixth meeting of the Mile End Group Sir richard Mottram discussed ‘Protecting the citizen in the 21st Century – issues and challenges’
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Queen Mary
At the twenty-sixth meeting of the Mile End Group Sir Michael Quinlan, Sir David Omand and Sir Kevin Tebbit discussed ‘The Ethics of Intelligence’
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Queen Mary
The first Anthony Sampson Memorial Seminar brought together Lord Browne of Madingley and Sir Kevin Tebbit as his respondent on the theme of oil and politics
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Queen Mary
Sir David Omand and Sir Robin Mountfield discussed ‘The Star Wars theory of Civil Service reform’ at the twenty-fourth meeting of the Mile End Group
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Queen Mary
The Editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger gave the twenty-third Mile End Group on the future of newspapers
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Queen Mary
Dr Andrew Blick and Lord Lipsey gave the twenty-second Mile End Group entitled, ‘The Rise and Rise of the Special Adviser: From Thomas Balogh to David Cameron’
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Queen Mary
Professor George Steiner and Professor Peter Hennessy gave the The Michael Young Memorial Lecture (in association with the Young Foundation): ‘On Meritocracy’
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Queen Mary
The twenty-first meeting of the Mile End Group launched Peter Riddell’s book ‘The Unfulfilled Prime Minister’. Peter Riddell was joined by Robert Hill.
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Queen Mary
The Financial Times’ Philip Stephens and Professor Peter Hennessy discussed British foreign policy from Suez to Basra at the nineteenth meeting of the Mile End Group
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Queen Mary
Lord Butler of Brockwell discussed his report ‘The Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction’ at the eighteenth meeting of the Mile End Group. Sir David Omand acted as respondent
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Queen Mary
Dr Geoff Mulgan discussed ‘How Do Central Governments Think? Lessons from British History and Abroad’ with Dr William Plowden as respondent
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Queen Mary
Gillian Shephard MP gave the sixteenth Mile End Group on ‘The Need for an Impartial Civil Service’. Professor Rodney Lowe was the respondent
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Queen Mary
MEG 15 was given by Sir Christopher Foster and Sir Robin Mountfield
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Queen Mary
Professor George Jones (LSE), discussed ‘The Aides of British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Blair, 1721 to 2005’. David Willetts MP acted as the respondent
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Queen Mary
At the thirteenth meeting of the Mile End Group Professor Michael Barber the head of the Prime Minister Delivery Unit and Associate Editor of the Times Peter Riddell discussed ‘How the Prime Minister gets things done; Peter Riddell’
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Queen Mary
Lord Lawson, Professor Peter Hennessy and Sir Samuel Brittan discussed economic policy in the 1950s at the twelfth meeting of the Mile End Group
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Queen Mary
The tenth meeting of the Mile End Group brought the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence Sir Kevin Tebbit and the Associate Editor of the Times, Peter Riddell together to discuss ‘Contemporary Whitehall Reform: Good and Bad’
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Queen Mary
At the ninth meeting of the Mile End Group Matt Grant discussed ‘Cinema-Graphic Representation of Nuclear War’
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Queen Mary
Professor Peter Hennessy and Anthony Sampson discussed ‘The History and Sociology of the 1950s’ at the eighth Mile End Group
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Queen Mary
At the seventh Mile End Group Peter Davies discussed his thesis on The Mechanics of the Defence Intelligence Staff
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Physics Building, Queen Mary
The first ever Mile End Group was held at Queen Mary. The title was ‘Whitehall reform 1970-74′. Dr Jon Davis was joined by Sir Robin Mountfield (former Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office)
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Queen Mary
The third Mile End Group discussed ‘London-Dublin relations 1970-74′ and was led by Fearghal McGoveran.
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Queen Mary
At the sixth Mile End Group Chair of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party Dianne Hayter and journalist John Rentoul discussed ‘The Fight-Back of the Labour Right 1981-84′
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Queen Mary
At the fifth meeting of the Mile End Group, Garry Sheffield & Dr Dan Todman discussed editing the Douglas Haig diaries
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Queen Mary
The second Mile End Group discussed ‘BBC World Service and Whitehall in the early post-war period’. It was led by Alban Webb and Robert Fox
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Queen Mary
At the fourth Mile End Group, former Cabinet Secretary Lord Wilson discussed ‘‘The Blair Government Revisited’.
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King’s College London
The twenty-ninth event of King’s College London’s Strand Group took place at Bush House on Wednesday 16th May.
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Dr Jon Davis, Director of The Strand Group, marks the launch of our new website by reflecting on our recent activities.
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In the media
Coverage of The Blair Years
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Coverage of ‘The Treasury and an Introduction to Economic History – in Partnership with HM Treasury’
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Ministry of Defence, Whitehall
The twenty-eighth event of King’s College London’s Strand Group took place in the Ministry of Defence on the 17th of April.
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King’s College London
Stephen Lovegrove, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Defence, addressed the 27th meeting of King’s College London’s Strand Group on Tuesday 20th March 2018
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King’s College London
The twenty-sixth event of King’s College London’s Strand Group took place at Bush House on Thursday 15th February 2018. King’s Visiting Professor Ed Balls and Peter Sands launched their Harvard working paper, titled, ‘Time for Clarity: The Views of British Business on The Path to Brexit’
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King’s College London
Sir Dave Ramsden, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and King’s Visiting Professor, gave a lecture entitled ‘Monetary Policy from End to End: Define, Decide, Deliver’, marking the 25th event of the Strand Group. The event was held at Bush House, King’s College London
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The Guildhall
On the evening of 14 November, Lord Adonis, Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission and King’s Visiting Professor, delivered his inaugural lecture as Visiting Professor at King’s to a packed Strand Group event at the Guildhall in the City of London
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King’s College London
On 12 June the Strand Group hosted their final event of the academic year, inviting Visiting Professor Ed Balls and Peter Sands, former CEO of Standard Chartered, to present their new Harvard research paper, ‘Making Brexit Work for British Businesses’
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King’s College London
On 2 May, the Strand Group hosted a half-day conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the New Labour government’s decision to give the Bank of England operational independence in 1997
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British Academy
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman and Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield spoke at the twenty-first meeting of the Strand Group at the British Academy. The topic of the meeting was ‘Historical Research and Political Accountability: Trident, the Falklands and Iraq’
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King’s College London
Sir Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office spoke about the implications of central decision-making on the delivery of frontline services at the twentieth meeting of The Strand Group on the 7th February
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King’s College London
To launch Ian Beesley’s book, ‘The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries’, the current Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood was joined by four of his predecessors, Lord Wilson, Lord Turnbull, Lord Armstrong and Lord Butler.
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British Academy
Ken Clarke MP joined the Strand Group on Tuesday 15 November to celebrate the launch of his new memoir, Kind of Blue
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HM Treasury
On Wednesday 26 October The Strand Group and HM Treasury remembered one of the most momentous and traumatic episodes in its institutional history. Academics, politicians and officials past and present came together to mark 40 years since the UK government’s request for financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund in the autumn of 1976.
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HM Treasury
On Thursday 20th October 2016, Sir John Kingman the former second permanent secretary gave a lecture to the Strand Group entitled; ‘The Treasury and the Supply Side’
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King’s College London
On Wednesday 5 October the Hon. Julia Gillard spoke at the fifteenth event of the Strand Group on ‘The Future of the Commonwealth.’
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King’s College London
Ed Balls, former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and King’s Visiting Professor, launched his new book, Speaking Out, at the 14th meeting of the Strand Group on the 12th September 2016.
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Locarno Suite, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings gave the sixth Sir Michael Quinlan Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 13 July, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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King’s College London
Daniel Mulhall, the Irish Ambassador to the UK spoke at the 12th event of the Strand Group on Wednesday 11 May 2016, where he set out the Irish case, as a concerned neighbour, of the impact of Britain leaving the European Union.
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King’s College London
Lord Willetts the former Minister of State for Universities and Science gave his inaugural lecture on Thursday 28 April 2016, setting out 100 years of science policy. He was joined by the President of the Royal Society Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.
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King’s College London
Dame Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking gave her inaugural lecture on Wednesday 2 March 2016, reflecting on her experiences as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee for over 5 years
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Ministry of Defence
On 23rd February, the Chief of Defence Intelligence, Air Marshal Phil ‘Osby’ Osborn, spoke at the ninth event of the Strand Group.
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King’s College London
The UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, spoke about the future of antibiotics at the eighth event of the Strand Group. Dame Sally used the occasion, held during the first World Antibiotic Awareness Week, to highlight the pressing global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and advocate political action at all levels to contain it.
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King’s College London
Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield and Dr James Jinks launched their new book, The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945, at a Strand Group event at King’s College London on Monday 9 November.
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King’s College London
Charles Moore, former editor of the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator, celebrated the release of his new book, Margaret Thatcher – The Authorised Biography: Volume Two, Everything That She Wants, at King’s College London on Tuesday 20 October.
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No.11 Downing Street
The Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP spoke at a reception held in Downing Street
to mark the launch of Margaret Thatcher and Number Ten, an exciting new contemporary history project produced The Strand Group.
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Locarno Suite, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Sir Iain Lobban gave the fifth Sir Michael Quinlan Memorial Lecture on the topic: ‘The Shifting Sands of the Intelligence and Security World:
A Moral Sense’
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King’s College London
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair joined Sir Michael Barber, at King’s College London to discuss how best to run a government. Sir Michael was the inaugural Head of the Downing Street Delivery unit in Tony Blair’s Government between 2001 and 2005.
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HM Treasury
Sir Nicholas Macpherson, the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and one of several newly appointed Visiting Professors at King’s College London delivered a timely lecture on ‘The Treasury and the Union’ on 19 January 2015.
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King’s College London
The second meeting of the Strand Group, the signature events series of the Policy Institute at King’s College London, took place at the university’s Strand campus on 27 April. Sir Dave Ramsden, Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury, Head of the Government Economic Service (GES) and recently-appointed Visiting Professor to King’s addressed a diverse and distinguished audience on ‘50 years of the Government Economic Service’.
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Research
This blog gives insights into the history of government – its development, its departments and some of the roles and people involved
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Research
A new video history
10 Downing Street
The Policy Institute at King’s
King’s College London
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Margaret Thatcher and No.10 is an innovative contemporary history project, produced by the Policy Institute at King’s College London in collaboration with No. 10 Downing Street.
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