Jake Scott is a Doctoral Researcher in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, researching populism and its relationship to the democratic principle of ‘the people’. He has worked with the Bow Group, the Henry Jackson Society, and is the Chairman of the Mallard, a conservative online and print publication. He completed his BA in History and Political Science, and his MA in Political Theory, at the University of Birmingham, receiving the JD Armstrong prize for his Master’s Thesis.