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Liam Byrne

Leader

Member of Parliament (Labour Party), United Kingdom

Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP is a former Cabinet Minister, Chair of the global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF, and founder and co-Chair of the APPG on Inclusive Growth. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chief Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury.

As Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism and then Immigration Minister, he oversaw the rebuilding of the UK immigration system. Before politics, Liam was a technology entrepreneur, strategy consultant and banker with NM Rothschilds, a Fulbright Scholar and Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow.

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Action

Building a cross party political consensus around inclusive growth in the UK Parliament, and breaking new ground with our ‘capitalism for the common good’ research programme to explore how to harness the power of individual savers and pension savers to drive firms towards green, inclusive growth.

Books & Articles

Just Transitions and The Future of Work for the People We Serve, both published through the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF can be found here: https://www.parlnet.org/publications/just-transitions/ and here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Work-People-Serve-ebook/dp/B08BJBK4SZ

My history of British capitalism Dragons, Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain, together with my book on countering extremism, Black Flag Down and my book on China can all be found via my author page here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Liam-Byrne/e/B0034NHQ2U/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk

Relevant discourse

At the ‘An Englishness open to all’ seminar in March 2017, Byrne said: “if you look at a range of social questions like for example on the importance of faith, or on the importance of immigration, or on the importance of free movement, what you see is massive gulfs between those who traditionally have supported Labour.  And so the challenge for a Labour politician is that if you are trying to knit back together a coalition, and if you are trying to knit back together a country, because you believe that collaboration is really important, what we are now looking at is how can you use patriotism and indeed a sense of Englishness to try and rebuild the bridges between the coalition.  What we know is that we can’t reunite a socially divided coalition by talking about things that divide them, that doesn’t work.  And so what we’ve got to do is find ways of bringing people back together.”

Always bring the focus back to the people – our constituents – who we are elected to serve, and ask ourselves: how will our work help them, today and tomorrow?

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Liam Byrne is leader on:

Citizen engagement & inclusive policy making
Innovation