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.
A very good evening to you.
Welcome.
My name is Tony Fravers from the Department of Government and the School of Public Policy here at the LSE,
but actually this is a public event hosted by the LSE's excellent European Institute.
I'm very pleased to be joined by our speakers, who I'll introduce in a moment.
To this event, which is to mark the 10 years passing since the Brexit referendum in June.
It's like 10 years and a month now.
And this has been noted by a new book, edited by Anthony Seldon, called The Brexit Effect, with an array of authors.
I'll say a little bit more about it in a moment.
I wish you just asked to make sure you all have your phones on silent.
Hashtag for those of you who use those kind of things.
There'll be an opportunity after the presentations for you to ask questions of our speakers.
What we're going to do is I'm going to ask each of them,
and I've introduced them, to say a few words about why the book was written,
why they wrote what they did in the book.
What they've learned from this remarkable experience.
Because, and of course we all know that, that the UK's decision in that remarkable referendum
to leave the European Union was perhaps the most divisive and consequential event, even more certainly across the UK.