Brexit Britain is fiercely divided. With the yellow vests bringing violence to the streets of Paris earlier this year, is Britain also edging towards instability? Founder of Novara Media Aaron Bastani, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Vince Cable, and political commentator and journalist Ella Whelan consider the conflict to come.

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Sir Vince Cable is a British politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019. He has been Member of Parliament for Twickenham since 2017, having also held that position from 1997 to 2015. Cable led the Liberal Democrats to their best national electoral performance since the 2010 election following a campaign in which the party ran on an anti-Brexit platform under the slogan, “Bollocks to Brexit”.

Aaron Bastani is co-founder and Senior Editor at Novara Media. He has written for Vice, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and the New York Times and regularly appears as a commentator on the BBC and Sky News. His research interests include new media, social movements and political economy.

Ella Whelan is the co-convenor of the 2019 Battle of Ideas festival. She is a journalist and author of What Women Want: Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism. Ella was the assistant editor at spiked and host of the spiked podcast between 2015-2018.

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