Robots, Brexit and the Anthropocene - welcome to 2020s Britain

Amid all the sound and fury over Brexit, progressives disorientated by 2016 should remember a vital fact - it is only the firing gun on a decade of much wider disruption. As the UK negotiates its new place in the world, a wave of economic, social and technological change will reshape the country, in often radical ways. It is vital progressives better understand the forces driving these changes and the challenges and opportunities they will create. After all, progressives historically have won when they have a strong set of demands allied to a sense they own the future, and have change in their bones. The IPPR's new report, Future Proof: Britain in the 2020s, sets out the five key trends that will drive change in the 2020s and the major challenges they will create.