Will Hutton talks to Ian Goldin

Journalist and bestselling writer Will Hutton argues that a neoliberal consensus has broken Britain and says we need a new economic, social and political settlement to prevent the country becoming even poorer and more irrelevant.

Hutton says a right-wing ideology has dominated Britain for a generation. It has been marked by a pattern of minority leadership, corruption and lies, supported by a first-past-the-post electoral system. The country now faces several interlinked crises, including a turbulent economy, a rise in the cost of living, an increasingly divided society and the looming break-up of the UK. Hutton argues for a new kind of politics that harnesses the power of the collective to transform the economy, leadership and society for the better.

Hutton is a former economics editor of The Guardian, former editor-in-chief of The Observer and former principal of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include The State We’re In, How Good We Can Be, The World We’re In and The Writing on the Wall. Here he talks to Professor Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation and development at the University of Oxford and the founding director of the Oxford Martin School.