Fabian Fringe Events at Labour conference


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10:41 am - September 26th 2012

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All events are in the Conference room at Manchester Town Hall unless stated

All are welcome to attend Fabian fringe events which are located outside of the secure zone.

Sunday – September 30th
Deeper Democracy: can parties reconnect people and politics?
Time: 12:45 – 14:00
Featuring: Stella Creasy MP, Peter Kellner (President, YouGov), Caroline MacFarland (Respublica), Kathryn Perera (Chair) (Chief Executive, Movement for Change)
In association with: Centre:Forum, Respublica
Five Million Votes presents Winning New Voters: Should Labour Lurch to the left or right?
Time: 17:45 – 19:15
Featuring: Rowenna Davis (Councillor, Southwark) (Chair), Lord Stewart Wood (Strategic adviser, Ed Miliband), Steve Hart (Chair, CLASS), Rachel Reeves MP (Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury), and Luciana Berger MP (Shadow Minister for Climate Change).
Five Million Votes in association with the Fabian Society
Venue: Lord Mayor’s Parlour, Manchester Town Hall
Politics: Is the future Plural?
Time: 18:00-19:30
Featuring: John Denham MP, Caroline Flint MP, Katie Ghose (Chief Executive, Electoral Reform Society), Simon Hughes MP (Liberal-Democrats), Dr. John Pugh MP (Liberal Democrats) and Mary Riddell (Daily Telegraph) (Chair)
In association with: Centre:Forum and The Electoral Reform Society
Fabian Question Time: Labour’s Alternative
Time: 20:00-21:30
Speakers:Andy Burnham MP, Dan Hodges (Daily Telegraph), Owen Jones (The Independent), Polly Toynbee (The Guardian), Chuka Umunna MP and Alison McGovern MP (chair)

Monday – October 1st
How can Labour solve the Childcare crisis?
Time: 12:30-14:00
Featuring: Stephen Twigg MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Education), Seema Malhotra MP (chair), Sam Smethers (Chief Executive, Grandparents Plus), Purnima Tanuku OBE (Chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association) and Vivian Woodell (Board member of mid-counties Co-Operative, Chief Executive of Phone Co-Op)
In association with: Family Planning Institute, Fabian Women’s Network, The Family Room, Co-Op
Note Venue: Exchange 2&3 Manchester Central (inside secure zone)
New Forms of Work
Time: 13:00-14:00
Featuring: Stephen Timms MP (Shadow Minister for Employment), David Coats (Director of WorkMatters Consulting, Research Fellow, Smith Institute), Doug Henderson (Former Labour MP), Tom Hadley (Director of External Relations REC) and Rowenna Davis (The Guardian) (Chair)
In association with: PCG and REC
Growing Pains: How to rebuild the economy and restore trust
Time: 18:00-19:30
Featuring: Rachel Reeves MP (Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury), Brendan Cook (Head of Retail Banking and Wealth Management, HSBC), Maurice Glasman (Labour Peer), Richard Lloyd (Executive Director, Which?) and Larry Elliot (Chair) (The Guardian)
In association with: HSBC
Crime, Punishment and Reform: Driving forward the Justice agenda
Time: 18:00-19:30
Featuring: Lord Beecham (Justice Spokesperson) (invited), Vera Baird QC (Labour Candidate for Police Commissioner, former Solicitor General), Frances Crook (Chief Executive, Howard League for Penal Reform), Tony McNulty (former immigration minister) and Charlotte Rachael Proudman (Chair) (Independent, The Guardian)
In association with: Howard League for Penal Reform
Note Venue: Lord Mayor’s Parlour, ManchesterTown Hall
Labour’s Policy Review: The Shape of Things to Come
Time: 19:45 – 21:30
Featuring: Lord Andrew Adonis, Jon Cruddas MP (Chair, Policy Review), Angela Eagle MP (Chair, National Policy Forum), John Denham MP (editor, The Shape of Things to Come) and Andrew Harrop (Fabian Society) (Chair)

Tuesday – October 2nd
Spin Alley: Live – Come and debate Ed Miliband’s speech
Time: 18:00-19:30
Featuring: Jackie Ashley (The Guardian),Andrew Harrop (Fabian Society), Mehdi Hasan (Huffington Post), Sadiq Khan MP, Tim Montgomerie (editor, ConservativeHome) and Pippa Crerar (Evening Standard) (chair)
In association with: Political Quarterly
Two speed Europe: are women being left behind?
Time: 19:45-21:15
Featuring: Emma Reynolds MP (Shadow Minister for Europe), Ivana Bartoletti (editor, Fabiana), Linda McAvan MEP, Dr Roberta Guerrina (University of Surrey) and Felicity Slater (chair)
In association with: Fabian Women’s Network, Labour Movement for Europe
Venue: Lord Mayor’s Parlour, Manchester Town Hall

All events are in the Conference Room, Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square, Greater Manchester, M2 5DB

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1. mike cobley

No fringe events on education or the ongoing ATOS debacle? I’d have thought those were essential topics.

2. Chaise Guevara

“Politics: Is the future Plural?”

No. That would be “futures”.

Before I get my coat, I should say in my defence that the above is a great example of a name that doesn’t tell you anything, except that the person who wrote it is bad at grammar.

3. Solomon Hughes

“Growing Pains: How to rebuild the economy and restore trust” – in association with HSBC bank ! with their head of Wealth Management on the platform !

4. Cherub

@2 Pluralism mate. Geddit?

I’ll be interested to see what comes out of the policy review meeting.

5. Chaise Guevara

@ 4 Cherub

Yeah, but don’t we already live in a pluralist society?

6. Cherub

If I were inclined to split hairs I’d say we were multicultural as opposed to pluralist.

7. Chaise Guevara

@ Cherub

Really? I thought pluralism meant having lots of stakeholders (arrgh) in the system. So the government has to deal with powerful NGOs and so forth. In which case we’d be pluralistic and possibly multicultural, although I’ve never been sure what that means.

8. EFTA NOT EU

Labour Euro Safeguards Campaign :Should there be a referendum on EU membership?

1 Oct,Jury’s Inn (Bridgewater Suite) 5.45pm:

Chair,Austin Mitchell MP

Speakers : Kate Hoey MP; Mark Seddon, People’s Pledge; Graham Stringer MP, Kelvin Hopkins MP


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