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Speakers at the PEF 25 Conference at SOAS 15.5.25

Recent News Updates

Economists and human rights experts call on Starmer to drop “destructive” economic policy

In an open letter coordinated by the think-tank Compassion in Politics, academics including PEF Council members Ha-Joon Chang and Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson – authors of the widely read The Spirit Level – warn Starmer that his current approach mimics the “economic orthodoxy that has made this country poorer, less cohesive and more unequal than fifteen years ago.” 

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