UK politics is focused on short-term crises, at the expense of thinking about and acting on long-term problems. Among other things, this is a barrier to building a fairer society, undermining opportunity and growth and damaging our democracy and our society more broadly. Thinking and acting in the long term is possible, as the Welsh government has proven over the last decade, and brings multiple benefits. Many of today’s thorniest political problems in the UK would have been ameliorated, if not averted, had previous government paid more attention to long term issues. There are a range of institutional, systemic and psychological barriers to thinking and acting in the long term, but there are also many practical solutions that can help to overcome those barriers.
Join the Fairness Foundation and two expert speakers - Derek Walker, the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, and Cat Tully, Managing Director of the School of International Futures, to discuss the need for UK politics and policymaking to focus on long-termism and on the welfare of future generations, the barriers to change, and how to overcome them.
Speakers
- Derek Walker, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
- Cat Tully, Managing Director of the School of International Futures and Trustee, IGF for Academics Stand Against Poverty UK
- Anita Sangha, Research Assistant at the Fairness Foundation
- Will Snell, Chief Executive at the Fairness Foundation (chair)
