The UCL EU Referendum Debate: To Remain or To Leave?

This event will start promptly at 6pm, so please arrive by 5.45pm to secure your seat. 

Special EU Referendum Seminar Series & Briefing Papers

UCL will host a major debate on all the issues raised by the EU referendum, with contributions from both campaigns and from academic experts

Remain

• Laura Sandys, Chair of the European Movement and former Conservative MP for South Thanet.
• Chuka Umunna, Labour MP for Streatham, was Shadow Business Secretary from 2011 to 2015 and is a now a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee.  

Leave

• Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP for North East Somerset, is a member of the European Scrutiny Committee and Treasury Committee. 
• Peter Whittle, UK Independence Party Member of the London Assembly and UKIP’s candidate for the 2016 London mayoral election.

Expert Commentators 

• Swati Dhingra, Lecturer at the Department of Economics at LSE and Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance.
• Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London and Director of the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative.
• Simon Usherwood, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Surrey. 

Chair

• Professor Meg Russell, Director or the Constitution Unit.

Organised jointly by the UCL Constitution Unit, UCL European Institute and UCL School of Public Policy.

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