2025-07-21
1 小时 27 分钟Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
holiday time or mid-July, so late July now.
Anyway, I'm Tony Travers,
Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy and Professor in the Department of Government,
and I'm really here to chair this evening's event.
We're going to hear about his new book, Can We Be Great Again?
Why a Dangerous World Needs Britain, from Sir Jeremy Hunt.
And I'll just very briefly introduce him.
Then what we'll do,
the pattern for the evening will be So Jeremy will give a speech
if you want to wander around and talk to the audience and talk about the book and then he'll come and rejoin me over here.
I'll ask one or two questions but then there'll be plenty of time for anybody in the audience to try and get through as many questions
as we can.
So, just very briefly to warm it up,
Sir Jeremy grew up in Surrey and had a successful business career before turning to politics.
And in a world, I can say this, where it's often said that people go straight into politics,
nothing wrong with that,
it is interesting that there are still people who have careers before politics and then go into politics.
At the 2005 election,