Charles Clarke read mathematics and economics at Kings College, Cambridge. He now holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Lancaster and Kings College London, co-leads the Baltic Geopolitics Programme at Cambridge University, and works on international education reform for Cambridge Partnership for Education. 

He was President of the National Union of Students and then a Labour councillor in Hackney before working as Chief of Staff for Neil Kinnock, the Labour Party Leader. 

Charles was elected Labour MP for Norwich South (1997-2010) and joined the government in 1998. He served as Labour Party Chair, Secretary of State for Education and Skills, and Home Secretary until 2006. 

His recent books include Understanding the Baltic States (2023), The University Challenge (2020), The Too Difficult Box (2014), British Labour Leaders (2015), and British Conservative Leaders (2015).

Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe.

Sarah Fraser Butlin KC is Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and a barrister at Cloisters Chambers, London.

Fiona Costello is Research Associate, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.