If the Labour Party wins the next election it will take control of an economically and socially wounded country that is crying out for better. The Labour leadership has set out a clear plan for electoral victory but what do they need to do to govern successfully and turn the country around? 

In April 2024 Will Hutton came to Intelligence Squared with Alastair Campbell and Sonia Sodha to interrogate these questions so fundamental to us all. Drawing from his new book This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain, he argued the long history of under investment that has plagued us since the Victorian era must be decisively reversed. Instead economic growth requires the blending of ethical socialism and progressive liberalism to create a high investment  economy and “ We Society” that works for all. Success, which will necessitate reviving our degraded democracy and repurposing the British state, is essential to restore the public’s faith in politicians. Hutton and Campbell discussed how high the stakes have become in the next general election and whether Labour can avoid the splits that have so regularly disabled it over the last hundred years.