Is equality possible? We are fast approaching the point of no return, but former Treasury minister Liam Byrne and Times columnist Philip Collins join us to explore a radical plan to fix things.
We are bequeathing to Generation Z a dystopian future of irreversible rifts between the super-rich and the rest that erodes the internal bonds of once united countries and triggers the failure or the fracturing of nations.
Yet it doesn’t need to be like this. The future could be a place where we live longer, happier, healthier and wealthier lives – but only if we master new ways of sharing wealth without war or revolution.
A cabinet minister in the last Labour government and the MP for Britain’s most income-deprived community, Liam Byrne has drawn upon conversations with world leaders, policymakers, and the experts at the OECD, World Bank, and IMF to develop proposals for the seemingly intractable problem of wealth inequality.
For anyone who has had enough of slogans and want to find real and meaningful solutions to the profound challenge of how we distribute wealth and resources, this is an unmissable event.