Roger Liddle

Roger Liddle

Roger Liddle is a Labour member of the House of Lords. From 1997 to 2004 he served as special adviser on European affairs to prime minister, Tony Blair. From 2004 to 2007 he worked in Brussels, first as a member of the cabinet of trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson and then as an adviser on the future of social Europe to the president of the European commission, Jose Manuel Barroso.
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Roger Liddle

Review: Richard Toye’s Age of Hope

Richard Toye’s Age of Hope is the first major study of the post war Attlee government to be published since 1997. It stands alongside the two much earlier classic overviews of this period, Kenneth Morgan’s Labour in Power (1984)and Peter Hennessy’s Never Again (1992), but benefits from a longer and equally

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Hands holding an empty bowl
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Roger Liddle

‘Please Prime Minister, can we have some more?’

While the Prime Minister has made ‘levelling up’ the centrepiece of his post-Brexit agenda, The Financial Times’ Robert Shrimsley described Mr Johnson’s recent speech to the Conservative Party Conference as “all destination, no plan?” We have, as the PM put it, “one of the most imbalanced societies and lop-sided economies of all the richer

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Roger Liddle

Heading for disaster

With the NGEU programme, Spain has a chance to make its economy more sustainable, inclusive and resilient. Whether it does so remains to be seen

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