Lessons in Power: Foreign Policy w/ Stewart Wood

Keir Starmer and David Lammy face the immediate foreign policy challenges of wars in Ukraine and Gaza, volatility in Europe, and geopolitical conflict between the US and China.

Lord Stewart Wood, now a Fellow of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers at the Treasury from 2001 to 2007 and Gordon Brown’s foreign policy adviser at No 10 from 2007 to 2010. He joins Michael and Mems to discuss his experience of working across a range of issues under the last Labour government and offer advice to Keir Starmer's new Labour government. They discuss Gordon Brown's diplomacy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the challenges of managing relations with the EU and its member states in a post-Brexit world, and how to position the UK amid the US-China trade war.

Lessons in Power is a SPERI Presents... podcast. Professor Michael Jacobs and Mems Ayinla interview ministers and advisors from the New Labour administration (1997-2010) to tease out lessons on a range of issues for Keir Starmer’s newly formed Labour government.