Where Next?

Outside of the EU, and facing new and unprecedented global challenges, Britain faces an identity crisis. This timely book by one of the rising stars of frontline politics shows a way out. In this brilliant and accessible intervention, Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy offers a road map for how Britain can leave behind the mess we're in and become a self-confident, united outward-looking country, showing leadership in the world once again. As Brexit revealed, Britain's ability to project a confident, internationalist foreign policy is shaped by and rooted in domestic priorities; it rests on the consent of its citizens. As MP for Wigan, Lisa Nandy has deep knowledge of the challenges facing those post-industrial towns whose vote to leave the EU was seen as a rejection of internationalism. Now at the centre of public debate around the future of 'global Britain', she brings together the global and the local to tell a story about how we got here and how we might go about mending a broken reputation abroad at the same time as writing a new national story at home. Nandy makes clear that, however disconnected global systems have become from working people here and across the world, the problems we feel locally - from football to fraud to flooding - have global solutions. Written in lucid prose, this clear-eyed and ultimately hopeful book will set out how we restore values, energy and direction to Britain's role in the world, and offer a snapshot of an alternative future that remains within our grasp.