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Lib Dems – Brighton
No voice, no growth: Is the lack of democracy at work holding back the UK economy?
Monday 17th September, 13.00-14.00, Churchill Room, Brighton Hilton Metropole
Baroness Susan Kramer (Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson)
Ian Brinkley (Interim Chief Economist, CIPD)
Sue Ferns (Deputy General Secretary, Prospect)
Chair: Vicky Pryce (Economist and Board Member, Centre for Economics and Business Research)
Labour Party – Liverpool
Why do companies go bust?
Monday 24th, 12.45-14.00, Room 6, Jurys Inn
Chi Onwurah MP (Shadow BEIS Minister)
Professor Richard Murphy (Director, Tax Research LLP)
Cllr Ian Greenwood (Chair, Local Authority Pension Fund Forum)
Chair: Clive Betts MP (Chair, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee)
Combating poverty: what have housing associations got to do with it?
Monday 24th, 17.45-19.00, Room 6, Jurys Inn
John Healey MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Housing)
Simon Nunn (Executive Director, National Housing Federation) – TBC
Chair: Polly Toynbee (Columnist, The Guardian)
How can Labour revive the trade union movement? Priorities for the next manifesto
Tuesday 25th, 12.45-14.00, Room 7, Jurys Inn
Rebecca Long Bailey MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (TBC)
Tim Thomas (Director of Employment and Skills Policy, EEF)
Mike Clancy (General Secretary, Prospect)
Chair: James Bloodworth (Journalist and author of ‘Hired’)
Championing the Living Wage: from the high street to your football club
Tuesday 25th, 17.45-19.00, Room 7, Jurys Inn
Rebecca Long Bailey MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
Steve Rotheram (Metro Mayor, Liverpool City Region)
Tess Lanning (Director, Living Wage Foundation)
Chair: Paul Hackett (Director, the Smith Institute)
Conservative Party – Birmingham
Why do companies go bust?
Monday 1st October, 12.45 – 14.00, Fortissimo Room, Regency Hyatt
Kelly Tolhurst (Minster for Corporate Responsibility) – Invited
Jonathan Djanogly MP (Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Corporate Governance Group)
Tej Parikh (Senior Economist, IoD)
Cllr Paul Doughty (Deputy Chair, Local Authority Pension Fund Forum)
SNP – Glasgow
Low carbon Scotland: Can it deliver jobs and growth?
Monday 8th October, 12.30-13.30
Paul Wheelhouse MSP (Minister for Energy) – TBC
Alan Brown MP (Westminster Spokesperson on Energy)
Mark Vyvyan-Robinson (Director of Development and Investment, EDF Renewables)
Sue Ferns (Deputy General Secretary, Prospect)
Chair: Professor Alan Alexander (Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Why do companies go bust?
Monday 8th October, 17.30-18.30
Jamie Hepburn MSP (Minister for Business, Fair Work and Skills)
Alison Thewliss MP (Spokesperson on Local Government and Treasury) – Invited
Cllr Ian Greenwood (Chair, Local Authority Pension Fund Forum)
Chair: Paul Hackett (Director, the Smith Institute)