Vince Cable: Brexit and the North/South Divide by Liverpool John Moores University published on 2017-02-27T15:48:53Z The Roscoe Lecture series was launched in November 1997 to provide an open platform for debate on topics of public interest. Today, they are one of the UK’s largest public lecture series, regularly attracting audiences of over 800 people. The Roscoe Lectures play an important part in the intellectual life of Merseyside, helping to foster informed debate, broaden horizons and perspectives, and uphold the crucial spirit of intellectual inquiry and free speech in which Roscoe passionately believed. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/roscoe-lecture-series