The Respect Agenda in the UK and Europe: Connection and Delivery”: Workshop on Social Democracy and the ‘squeezed middle’

In this special session co-organised with the UCL Policy Lab, we will hear how politics that respects and reconnects with the lives of ordinary people can help defeat the anti-democratic forces of populism and division. We will hear about the challenge posed by anti-democratic forces in the UK and EU and explore the role ‘respect’ can play in meeting those challenges. Input and comments were provided by Marc Stears from the UCL Policy Lab, Henning Meyer of the SPD's Core Values Commission and Editor of the Social Europe magazine, Claire Ainsley from the Progressive Policy Institute, Polly Curtis from Demos, and Catrina Schläger from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin.