Liverpool Hope University: The UK, the EU and the Labour Party: Lessons in the Relaunch of Trust

Seminar Series “Responding to Disruption: Government, populism, the pandemic, and the breakdown of public trust”

Organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, the MA in Politics and International Relations and the European Institute, Liverpool Hope University

Register here. (Note morning time slot.)

Dr Richard Corbett CBE FRSA was a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 to 2020, except for 2009-2014 when he was a senior member of the cabinet of Herman Van Rompuy, the first full-time long-term President of the European Council. He was Leader of the Labour MEPs from 2017-2020, and as such a member of the Labour party NEC and attended Shadow Cabinet. In the Parliament he was for ten years the spokesman on constitutional questions for the Socialist & Democrat Group and was the Parliament’s rapporteur on the Constitutional and Lisbon treaties as well as on revising the parliament’s own internal procedures. He has written several books on European affairs and was a visiting Professor at the College of Europe.