Populism is ‘making the world unstable’, warns David Cameron
Former UK PM warns that SA’s poor need to be lifted out of poverty
Though the world's leading central bankers may have stepped in to save the global economy from Armageddon during the financial crisis by flooding markets with cheap money, politics has had no such saviour since the near-collapse of the entire banking system. The great recession of a decade ago unleashed a populist wave that has seen the British public reject the EU, a rise of authoritarianism best captured by the election of leaders such as Donald Trump and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, the latter a populist who promises to punish his political enemies and roll back protection for minority groups. Protectionism, nationalism and trade wars have struck a particular chord with voters in recent years and left the world "unstable", said former UK prime minister David Cameron. The "world we now live in will be a world of bilateral agreements rather than perhaps multilateral ones and that is a pity. What we must try to ensure happens is that we don't slip backwards," he said in an interview wit...
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