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British politics has never been more combustible.
Governments promise Scandinavian welfare with American taxes. The public demands lower immigration and better public services. Debt spirals, ministers stumble, and every day the flames are fanned by a gleeful tabloid press and a new breed of populists with easy slogans and no solutions.
So is there a way out?

In this candid, funny and unsparing talk, Chris Mullinformer Labour minister, celebrated diarist and author of the classic A Very British Coupoffers his take on the crisis engulfing Westminster and the prospects for renewal. Drawing on his latest and final volume of diaries, Didnt You Use to Be Chris Mullin?, he lifts the lid on a decade of political turmoil, from Brexit to Boris and beyond, with the sharp humour and human warmth that have made his journals modern classics.

His work is much acclaimed:
The centurys greatest diarist. Lord Jay, former Head of the Diplomatic ServiceHe will join Alan Clark in the pantheon of truly great diarists. Matthew dAncona, Evening StandardTruly perceptive in turn reflective, frank, acerbic and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. Julia Langdon, The GuardianOne of Mullins charms is his readiness to like people who do not echo his politics. Jenni Russell, The Sunday Times

Chris Mullin is an author, journalist and former MP who served as a minister in three departments and chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee. His acclaimed diaries A View from the Foothills, Decline and Fall, A Walk-On Part and now Didnt You Use to Be Chris Mullin? have been hailed as one of the great political chronicles of our time. He is also the author of A Very British Coup, adapted into the award-winning television drama, and its sequel The Friends of Harry Perkins.

A Q&A Session will follow.