Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines delivers the 2019 Harold Wilson Lecture
What exactly is the “will of the people” over Brexit? asked the Rt Revd Nick Baines as he delivered this year's Harold Wilson Lecture at the University of Huddersfield
Video of the 2019 Harold Wilson Lecture
“For the first time in our history, we have a Government whose approved policy is to make the country poorer,” said Rt Revd Nick Baines when he delivered the 2019 Harold Wilson lecture.
He concluded the lecture by saying UK democracy needed to be reshaped, with a written constitution, proportional representation and even a redesign of the Commons chamber to reflect a new politics in which the two-party system was a thing of the past.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Cryan welcomed the late Harold Wilson’s son, Professor Robin Wilson, accompanied by his wife Joy. The lecture series commemorates the Huddersfield-born Labour politician who was Prime Minister during most of the 1960s and early 1970s.
It is co-organised by the University in tandem with the Huddersfield Episcopal Area and it's Bishop, Dr Jonathan Gibbs.
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