Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

We are delighted to announce that The Rt Hon John Glen MP and The Right Hon Liam Byrne MP will be the St Antony’s Visiting Parliamentary Fellows for the 2024-25 academic year. The Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship elects two Members of Parliament – one from the governing party and the other from one of the main opposition parties – each year. These Visiting Parliamentary Fellows will visit the College regularly and organise a series of seminars on important political and other matters.

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2025 seminar series theme: Good policy in the age of populism

The 2025 Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship seminar series is jointly hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations.

In 2024, over half the world held elections with over two billion people eligible to vote. And while the liberal centre left and centre right held ground, populists rose to power everywhere culminating in the re-election of Donald Trump.

So, what are now the implications for the renewal of mainstream politics? How do we renew good policy, internationally and domestically, from security to economic growth to public services to the very way that policy is made in liberal democracies?

In this seminar series, two former Chief Secretaries to HM Treasury, John Glenn and Liam Byrne explore some of the key questions which now confront and challenge mainstream politics, through the lens of specific case studies that highlight the realities of getting policy right in new political weather.