How To Run Britain

Asks all the right questions with the urgency of our times and trials. Most importantly, it answers (most of them) with strategies to transform penury to prosperity. * Mark Carney *Robert Peston and Kishan Koria pull no punches on the economic and social challenges arising from the UK’s weak productivity performance. But they find cause for optimism, not least from the fact that AI could be a force for good. * Sharon White *The economy is stalled, our social fabric frayed, our politics splintered … a brilliantly candid, timely and perceptive account of these fractures with bold suggestions on how they can be mended. * Andy Haldane *Thoughtful, provocative and highly readable * Ed Balls *

Robert Peston is ITV’s political editor, presenter of the politics show Peston, co-host of the podcast The Rest is Money and founder of the education charity, Speakers for Schools. He has written seven books, including How Do We Fix This Mess?, Who Runs Britain?, Brown’s Britain, WTF?, The Whistleblower and The Crash. For a decade until the end of 2015, he was at the BBC as economics editor and business editor. Peston has won more than 30 awards for his journalism, including Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year (twice) from the Royal Television Society.