Fabian New Year Conference 2017 | Labour in The

Fabian New Year Conference 2017 | Labour in the UK, Britain in the World Organised jointly with: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ Saturday 14 January 2017

9.15 Registration 10.00 Welcome The Light • Andrew Harrop (general secretary, Fabian Society) • Kate Green MP (chair, Fabian Society)

10.10 Keynote speech The Light  Jeremy Corbyn MP (leader, Labour party)

11.00 Morning plenary The Light Future Left: Is progressive politics dead?  With Stella Creasy MP (Walthamstow)  Owen Jones (columnist, Guardian)  Claire Fox (director, Institute of Ideas)  Jonathan Bartley (co-leader, Green party)  Chair: Andrew Harrop (general secretary, Fabian Society)

12.15 Morning breakout sessions Breakout Metropolitan Elite: Is Labour just for the inner cities? Room  With Rushanara Ali MP (Bethnal Green & Bow)

 Hywel Lloyd (co-founder, Labour Coast and Country)

 Paul Hunter (head of research, Smith Institute)

Breakout Rebel Alliance: Are progressive coalitions the future of the left? Room  With Neal Lawson (chair, Compass)

 Luke Akehurst (secretary, Labour First)

Breakout Uncertain Times: Is Labour prepared for 2017? Room  With Kate Green MP (Stretford & Urmston)  Richard Angell (director, Progress)

Breakout The Party of Equality: Is Labour failing on diversity? Room  With Dawn Butler MP (Brent Central, shadow minister for diverse communities)

 Ruth Hunt (chief executive, Stonewall)  Olivia Bailey (research director, Fabian Society)

The Light Back to Basics: what should the Labour party stand for?  With Margaret Hodge MP (Barking & Dagenham)  Bridget Phillipson MP (Houghton & Sunderland South)  Stephen Bush (special correspondent, New Statesman)  Paul Mason (writer & broadcaster)

13.15 Lunch 13.20-14.20 Lunchtime fringe sessions Breakout FWN Fringe Organised by the Fabian Women’s Network Room

Breakout Room YF Fringe Organised by the Young Fabians

Breakout International Fringe Organised by the Fabian International Network Room

The Light Democracy Rally  With Wayne David MP (Caerphilly)  Katie Ghose (chief executive, Electoral Reform Society)

14.40 Afternoon breakout sessions The Light Outward to the World: Towards an ethical foreign policy  With Nia Griffith MP (Llanelli)

 Alison McGovern MP (Wirral South)  Elizabeth Quintana (senior research fellow, RUSI)

Breakout The End of the World as we know it: what now for the special relationship? Room  With Leslie Vingamuri (Chatham House & SOAS)

Breakout Too Far, Too Fast? Has the pace of globalisation left too many people behind? Room  With Vicky Pryce (economist)  Cameron Tait (head of the changing work centre and senior research fellow, Fabian Society)

Bridging the Gap: What can the left do to bridge the gap in culturally divided western countries? Breakout  With Ernst Stetter (secretary general, FEPS) Room  Trevor Phillips (former chair, Equality & Human Rights Commission)

Breakout Participative session - Progressive responses to Brexit from the European Union Room  With Emma Reynolds MP (Wolverhampton North East)  Stephen Kinnock MP (Aberavon)

15.40-16.00 Break 16.00 Little Britain: What now for the UK on the world stage? The Light  With Emily Thornberry MP (Islington South, shadow foreign secretary)  Keir Starmer MP (Holborn & St Pancras, shadow secretary of state for exiting the European Union)

17.00 Close – we hope you will join us for post-conference drinks at (tbc)