Liam Byrne MP

In 2024, two billion people went to vote, and populism won big. Donald Trump returned to the White House. Marine Le Pen surged in France. Reform UK became Britain’s most successful far-right party in modern history. Across the West, authoritarian populists now govern one-quarter of the world’s democracies. But is this peak populism, or the populists’ tipping point? From the counting halls of inner-city Birmingham to the trading floors of Wall Street, from the Heritage Foundation war room to the algorithmic outrage machines of social media, Liam exposes the forces propelling the populist surge, and suggests how we may to stop it. Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP is a member of His Majesty’s Privy Council and Chair of the House of Commons Business & Trade Committee.