FEPS- Summer Conference 2018 | Labour Vision TUC Congress Centre, London, WC1B 3L Saturday 19 May 2018

9.15 Registration 10.00 Welcome Congress Hall • Andrew Harrop (general secretary, Fabian Society) • MP (chair, Fabian Society)

10.15 Keynote Speech Congress Hall • MP () 10.45 In Conversation Congress Hall • MP (shadow Brexit secretary) • Chair: Sienna Rodgers (editor, LabourList) 11.30 Morning Plenary Congress Hall The Thick of It: Is Labour on track to win the next general election? • MP • (columnist, ) • Katy Balls (political correspondent, The Spectator) • Andrew Harrop (general secretary, Fabian Society) • Chair: Kate Green MP (chair, Fabian Society)

12.30 Morning parallel sessions Congress Hall Britain’s Got Talent: A skills policy to boost growth and productivity • MP (chair, home affairs select committee) • Ursula Huws (professor of labour and globalisation, University of Hertfordshire) • Tom Blenkinsop (operations director, Community)

• Joe Dromey (senior research fellow, IPPR)

• Chair: Jason Brock (senior researcher, Fabian Society)

Blue Planet: Global and local approaches to defending the environment Invision Suites • Alan Whitehead MP (shadow energy and climate change minister) • Jake Sumner (co-chair, SERA) • Fergus Green (climate policy consultant and researcher) • Ria Bernard (national chair, Young Fabians) • Chair: Laeticia Thissen (policy advisor, FEPS)

Council The Local News: What do the local election results mean for Labour? Chamber • Jim McMahon MP (shadow local government minister) • Deborah Mattinson (founder, Britain Thinks) • Rokhsana Fiaz (Mayor of Newham)

• Cllr Clare Coghill (leader, Waltham Forest Council)

• Chair: Sarah Sackman (executive committee member, Fabian Society)

13.45 Lunchtime parallel sessions Congress Hall In Conversation • MP (former Labour Leader) • Chair: Melissa Benn (writer & campaigner)

Young Fabians: Are millennials destined to be the lost generation? Invision Suites • Baroness Glenys Thornton (shadow health minister) • Fahmida Rahman (researcher, Resolution Foundation) • Reuben Young (director, Priced Out) • Chair: Deeba Syed (executive committee member, Young Fabians)

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Council Fabian Women’s Network: Where next for democratic discourse in an age of digital media? Chamber • MP • Brhmie Balaram (senior researcher, RSA) • Hannah Couchman (technology and human rights lead, Liberty) • Olivia Varley-Winter (Royal Statistical Society) • Ivana Bartoletti (chair, Fabian Women’s Network) • Chair: Reema Patel (executive committee member, Fabian Society)

15.00 Afternoon parallel sessions Congress Hall Spooks: Defence and security in the modern age • MP (shadow defence secretary) • David Betz (professor of war in the modern world, King’s College London) • Christy Quinn (cyber threat researcher)

• Charlotte Norton (editor, Anticipations)

• Chair: Vassilis Ntousas (international relations policy advisor, FEPS)

Participative session

The Crown: Should the monarchy be reformed? Invision Suites • Ken Ritchie (chair, Labour for a Republic) • James Hallwood (former chair, Young Fabians) • Chair: Kate Green MP (chair, Fabian Society)

Council Casualty: Securing the NHS for future generations Chamber • MP (health select committee member) • Dr Sonia Adesara (NHS doctor & chair, Young Fabian health network) • Dr Martin Edobor (executive committee member, Fabian Society) • Rose Gray (Fabian Society Health Policy Group) • Chair: Lord Roy Kennedy (shadow local government minister)

16.00 Break Angela Eagle MP will be signing copies of her new book The New Serfdom in the Congress foyer.

16.15 Question Time Congress Hall • Tracy Brabin MP (shadow minister for early years) • MP • Lucy Anderson MEP • Ayesha Hazarika (former Labour adviser) • Stephen Bush (special correspondent, ) • Chair: Kate Green MP (chair, Fabian Society)

17.30 Close - we hope you will join us for post-conference drinks at the Jack Horner pub, 234-236 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7QJ (see map in the delegate pack)

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