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I’m at @EdelmanUK’s #trustbarometer release. We’ve got @EdWilliamsUK before @richardwedelman and a keynote from @InstituteGC’s Tony Blair. Will be tweeting any key lines 
The fear of migrants has now turned into the fear of robots when it comes to work, says @richardwedelman #trustbarometer @edelmanuk
“They (the global public) don’t trust media but they do engage with it [after periods of not engaging],” says @richardwedelman #trustbarometer @EdelmanUK
“The numbers in the UK [around trust] are pretty depressing,” says @EdWilliamsUK #trustbarometer @EdelmanUK
“There is a bigger gap in trust between the informed public and the general population [in the UK] than there is in Trump’s America,” says @EdWilliamsUK #trustbarometer @edelmanuk
On the upside, media is (just) more trusted than Corbyn or May. That’s a very thin silver lining in a very big media cloud #TrustBarometer @EdelmanUK
Now @InstituteGC’s Tony Blair begins. I’d be surprised, in this crowd, if there’s not a sharp reaction somewhere #TrustBarometer @EdelmanUK
“[Politicians] lie no more, no less today then they ever have done,” says Tony Blair #TrustBarometer @EdelmanUK
“The coming tech revolution will only intensify this feeling [of many feeling not listened to and left behind],” says Tony Blair #TrustBarometer @EdelmanUK
“Populism is the new normal,” says Tony Blair. “But we should start the debate about how information in the modern age is being used”. #trustbarometer @EdelmanUK
The Q&A begins. His key focus is on the tech revolution, regaining the centre ground of politics and companies, not governments taking the lead. Sound familiar? #trustbarometer @EdelmanUK
Tony Blair wants you to trust experts which, he says, counts for politicians when it comes to Brexit, using a Rafa Benitez football analogy about everyone thinking they can be the manager #trustbarometer @EdelmanUK
A second referendum on Brexit “is the only way to provide closure” and is likely to be hard Brexit vs Remain, says Tony Blair #trustbarometer @EdelmanUK
Tony Blair “doesn’t know the answer” of where a party with policies of the centre ground he can get behind might come from, alluding to Corbyn’s Labour not being that #trustbarometer @EdelmanUK
“The need for a strong market economy will never change,” says Tony Blair #trustbarometer @EdelmanUK
“Painful vs pointless is the dilemma of [the two options of soft or hard] Brexit,” says Tony Blair @EdelmanUK #trustbarometer
Just like most briefings at the moment, we’ve turned from the issue of the day (trust) and moved onto the rhetoric around Brexit. @EdelmanUK #trustbarometer
“China, America and probably India” will be the three “giants” of the global economy in the future, says Tony Blair @EdelmanUK #TrustBarometer
