Enoch Powell: Britain's first neoliberal politician w/ Robbie Shilliam

Robbie Shilliam joins PTO to talk about his article, 'Enoch Powell:
Britain’s First Neoliberal Politician' which appeared in the New
Political Economy Journal. We spoke about how Enoch Powell, far
from being a political throwback was in fact a key figure in the
emergence of neoliberalism and Thatcherism, and how his politics
presaged the Brexit project. We also chatted about how Powell, in
contrast to many conservatives became hostile to nostalgia for the
British Empire and how he believed that an independent Britain,
neither ruling an empire, nor becoming part of the embryonic
European Union would find its proper place in the world.