Britain: leading, not leaving – the case for remaining in the European Union

Speaker

Gordon Brown

Chair

Professor Craig Calhoun

Gordon Brown will give his first major public speech of the European Referendum campaign.

Gordon Brown is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Craig Calhoun (@craigjcalhoun) is Director and President of LSE. He is a world-renowned social scientist whose work connects sociology to culture, communication, politics, philosophy and economics.

The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) is celebrating its Twenty Fifth Anniversary in 2016. It is a centre for research and graduate teaching on the processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. In the most recent national Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) the Institute was ranked first for research in its sector.

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