Book Launch of Stephen Haseler’s last book ‘England Alone’

The Global Policy Institute and the Federal Trust cordially invite you to attend the launch of and a panel discussion on the late Stephen Haseler’s last book England Alone: Brexit and the Crisis of English Identity, which he completed shortly before his death in July.

The themes of England Alone as set out by Stephen Haseler are:

• The Brexit referendum result represents the end product of a crisis of English identity and confidence that has been building for over a century as the UK lost its role as a world empire.

• The Brexiteers live in a fantasy-land about our negotiating position and power in relation to the EU, and about the viability of a new ‘global role’. They have consistently overestimated the importance of the UK in the new global order.

• Brexit – the final result of a century of this delusion of grandeur – will, as we leave the world’s largest Single Market, leave us much poorer. And, as separatism grows in Scotland and Northern Ireland, it will also de-stabilise the Westminster state itself, including the monarchy, as the UK breaks up.

• So devastating was the EU referendum result that the existing Parliament, where there is an anti-Brexit majority, should, as an act of real as opposed to phoney patriotism, re-align the parties and reverse Brexit in order to stay in the EU. Behind these four themes are four critical issues that will be examined by the panel:

Behind these themes there are four critical issues that will be examined by the panel: Sovereignty, Citizenship, English Identity and English Futures.

Programme

Welcome & Introduction: Professor Chris Dixon (Acting Director Global Policy Institute)

Panel:

Chair: Brendan Donnelly (Director Federal Trust)

Professor Vernon Bogdanor, King’s College London

Dr. Andrew Blick, King’s College London

John Stevens, former MEP

Professor Sam Whimster, Global Policy Institute

Open discussion

Closing remarks: Professor Chris Dixon

The event will be followed by a drinks reception.

To register your attendance for this event, RSVP by sending an email to:

events@fedtrust.co.uk or call 020 7320 1677.