Organised with: Fabian Summer conference 2016 Britain’s Future, Labour’s Future
Saturday 21 May 2016, 09.30 – 17.15
TUC Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS
9.30-10.20 Registration Tea and coffee
10.20-10.45 Welcome Main Hall Andrew Harrop (general secretary, Fabian Society) Massimo D’Alema (president, Foundation for European Progressive Studies)
10.45-11.30 Keynote speech Main Hall Gordon Brown (former prime minister)
11.30-12.20 Morning Plenary ‘Should we stay or should we go now’: What should the left decide? Main Hall
Caroline Flint MP (Labour MP, Don Valley) Baroness Jenny Jones (Green Party, Member of the House of Lords) Tim Montgomerie (columnist, The Times) Chair: Andrew Harrop, (general secretary, Fabian Society)
12.30-13.30 Breakout sessions
Main Hall It’s the economy, stupid: what’s best for jobs and growth?
Shabana Mahmood MP (Labour MP, Birmingham Ladywood) John Mills (deputy chair, Vote Leave) Lucy Anderson MEP (Labour MEP for London) Vicky Pryce (economist) Chair: Michael Izza (chief executive, ICAEW)
Council Chamber The jury’s out: can the campaigns persuade the ‘undecideds’? Interactive session
Brendan Chilton (general secretary, Labour Leave) Antonia Bance (head of campaigns and communications, TUC) Richard Angell (director, Progress) Chair: Felicity Slater (exec member, Fabian Women’s Network)
Meeting Room 1 Drifting apart? The four nations and Europe
Nia Griffith MP (shadow secretary of state for wales and Labour MP for Llanelli) John Denham (director, University of Winchester’s Centre for English Identity and Politics and former Labour MP) Johanna Baxter (former Scottish Labour MSP candidate) Lee McGowan (senior lecturer, Queen's University Belfast) Chair: TBC
Invision Suite Europe in the world: what’s best for UK security and influence?
Catherine West MP (Labour MP, Hornsey & Wood Green) Ivana Bartoletti (chair, Fabian Women’s Network) Suzanne Evans (UKIP parliamentary spokesperson)
Elizabeth Quintana (director of military sciences, RUSI) Chair: Sophy Gardner (former Labour PPC for Gloucester and ex-RAF operations officer) 13.30-14.30 Lunch and lunchtime fringe sessions Council Chamber The state of the race: arguments, tactics, personalities and polls
Ania Skrzypek (senior research fellow, Foundation for European Progressive Studies) Adam Ludlow (senior consultant, ComRes) Cordelia Hay (associate director, BritainThinks) Chair: TBC Meeting Room 1 Fabian Women’s Network fringe Mary Creagh MP (Labour MP, Wakefield)
Invision Suite Young Fabian fringe Martin Edobor (chair, Young Fabians)
Caroline Hill (chair, Young Labour)
14.30-15.30 Breakouts sessions
Main Hall The party of democracy: do we need a new charter for political reform?
Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour MP, Stalybridge and Hyde) Alexandra Runswick (director, Unlock Democracy) Stephen Bush (special correspondent, New Statesman) Ellie Reeves (member, Labour's National Executive Committee) Chair: John Rentoul, (chief political commentator, The Independent)
Council Chamber The party of community: devolving real power to places and people
Jim McMahon MP (Labour MP, Oldham West & Royton) Liz Kendall MP (Labour MP, Leicester West) Cllr Bob Price (leader, Oxford City Council) Chair: Ed Wallis (editorial director, Fabian Society)
Meeting Room 1 The party of labour: how should the left respond to the changing world of work?
Yvette Cooper MP (Labour MP, Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) John Park (assistant general secretary, Community) Norman Pickavance (national director in people and culture, Grant Thornton and chair, Fabian Society Retail Industry Taskforce) Christine Armstrong (co-founder, Jericho Chambers) Chair: Cameron Tait (head of the Changing Work Centre and senior research fellow, Fabian Society)
Invision Suite The party of fairness: fresh principles for tax and welfare reform
Margaret Hodge MP (Labour MP, Barking) Owen Smith MP (Labour MP, Pontypridd) Polly Toynbee (columnist, The Guardian) Andrew Harrop (general secretary, Fabian Society) Chair: Sarah Sackman, lawyer and former parliamentary candidate
15.30-15.45 Afternoon break- tea and coffee
15.45 – 16.15 Afternoon keynote speech: London’s Future
16.15 - 17.15 Closing Plenary Future Left: can Labour respond to a changing society?
Angela Eagle MP (Labour MP, Wallasey) Keir Starmer MP (Labour MP, Holborn & St Pancras) Ayesha Hazarika (former Labour adviser) Phil Collins (writer, The Times) Chair: TBC