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Prospect at Party Conferences 2017
Prospect will once again be putting on a series of discussions and debates at the party conferences to give delegates and parliamentarians the
opportunity to debate some of the key issues affecting the UK.
If you would like to register your interest to attend our events or to find out more about our thought leadership programmes, please contact
Saskia Abdoh. To host your own event, please contact either Richard Rowe or Sophie Ryan using the details below:
Saskia Abdoh Richard Rowe
saskia.abdoh@prospect-magazine.co.uk richard.rowe@prospect-magazine.co.uk
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A question of leadership: Why everything in elections and
public policy hinges on the frontman or woman
Date: Sunday 17th September, 18.15
Chairman: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect Magazine
Speaker: Andrew Adonis, Chairman, National
Infrastructure Commission
The Great Jobs Agenda: How do we get more of the sort of
work that works for everybody
Date: Monday 18th September, 11.00
Chairman: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect
Speaker: Jo Swinson MP, Deputy Leader;
Frances OGrady, General Secretary, TUC
Digital Safetyhelping your constituents get fraud smart
Date: Monday 18th September, 13.15-14.15
Speaker: Andy Booth, Managing Director, Current
Accounts and FX, Barclays
Tom Clark in conversation with Nick Clegg
Date: Monday 18th September, 18.15
Tom Clark in conversation with Andy Burnham
Date: Sunday 24th September, 19.30
How can investment in national infrastructure help to
re-balance the UK economy?
Date: Monday 25th September, 08.00
Chair: Duncan Weldon, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Andrew Adonis, Chairman, National
Infrastructure Commission; John Holland-Kaye,
Chief Executive Officer, Heathrow Airport
A question of leadership: Why everything in elections and
public policy hinges on the frontman or woman
Date: Monday 25th September, 12.45
Chair: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Andrew Adonis, Chairman, National
Infrastructure Commission
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0203 372 2927
How can trade policy and export promotion support the
successful delivery of Brexit and a local industrial strategy?
Date: Monday 25th September, 12.45 (Invite only)
Chair: Duncan Weldon, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy;
Tina Hallett, Government and Public Sector Leader, PwC;
Anneliese Dodds MP, Shadow Treasury Minister;
Rushanara Ali MP, Trade envoy for Bangladesh;
Stephen Timms MP, Committee on Exiting the European Union
How can we provide banking services to the financially
excluded in a cashless society?
Date: Monday 25th September, 12.45 (Invite only)
Chair: Andy Davis, Associate Finance Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Seema Malhotra MP, Member for Feltham and Heston;
Anne Pieckielon, Director of Product and Strategy, Bacs
Business Reception
Date: Monday 25th September 2017, 20.00
Chair: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Hilary Benn MP, Chair, Committee on Exiting the
European Union; Catherine McGuinness, Chairman of the Policy
and Resources Committee, City of London Corporation
Digital Safetyhelping your constituents get fraud smart
Date: Tuesday 26th September 2017, 12.45
Speakers: Andy Booth, Managing Director, Current
Accounts and FX, Barclays; Bill Esterson MP, Shadow Minister for Business,
Energy and Industrial Strategy
The Financial Inclusion Reception
Date: Tuesday 26th September 2017, 18.00
Chair: Steve Bloomfield, Deputy Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Sherard Cowper-Coles, Chair, Financial Inclusion
Commission; Yvonne Fovargue MP, Shadow Minister for
Communities and Local Government; Peter Dowd MP, Shadow
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Beyond the bank: how can we ensure that SMEs get
the funding they need during times of economic uncertainty?
Date: Sunday 1st October, 19.30 (Invite only)
Chair: Jon Bernstein, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury;
Neil OBrien MP; Andrew Bowie MP;
Samir Desai, CEO, Funding Circle
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How can the UK best support development in the occupied
Palestinian territory?
Date: Monday 2nd October, 08.00 (Invite only)
Chair: Sameer Rahim, Managing Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State for Europe and the Americas
(invited); Aimee Shalan, Chief Executive,
Medical Aid for Palestinians
Fair lending for small businesses
Date: Monday 2nd October, 12.45 (Invite only)
Speakers: Jeremy Quin MP (invited); Nick Hurd MP, Minister
of State at the Home Office (invited); David Pickering,
Chief Executive, Lending Standards Board
Starting small: what support do small scale housebuilders need?
Date: Monday 2nd October, 12.45 (Invite only)
Chair: Andy Davis, Associate Finance Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Richard Bacon MP, Chair, APPG on Self-Build,
Custom and Community Housebuilding and Place-Making;
Christian Faes, CEO, Lendinvest;
Chris Philp MP
Smart cities, smart politics? What are the UKs
infrastructure priorities?
Date: Monday 2nd October, 17.45
Chair: Duncan Weldon, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Paul Maynard MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary
of State at the Department of Transport (invited);
Paul Plummer, CEO, Rail Delivery Group; Sadie Morgan,
Commissioner, National Infrastructure Commission
and Design Panel Chair, HS2
Towards an Inclusive Economy: Delivering services for
changing consumer needs
Date: Monday 2nd October, 17.45 (Invite only)
Chair: Jon Bernstein, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: David Willetts, Executive Chair, Resolution
Foundation; Mandy Griffin, Director of Membership
Propositions, Nationwide
Mind the gap: how can we ensure that our pensions system
does not leave behind the self-employed?
Date: Monday 2nd October, 17.45
Chair: Andy Davis, Associate Finance Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Richard Graham MP; Guy Opperman MP, Parliamentary Under
Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion; Steven Levin, CEO
UK Platform, Old Mutual Wealth
The Financial Inclusion Reception
Date: Monday 2nd October, 19.30
Chair: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Stephen Barclay MP, Economic Secretary to the
Treasury (invited); Sherard Cowper-Coles, Chair, Financial
Inclusion Commission
How can we avoid turning biomass into the Cinderella of the
energy industry?
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 08.00
Chair: Jon Bernstein, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Richard Harrington MP, Minister for Energy
and Industry; Ray Tucker, CEO, Real Ventures
Helping your constituents keep their finances safe online
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 12.45
Speakers: Ben Wallace MP, Minister of State for Security; Andy Booth,
Managing Director, Current Accounts and FX, Barclays
Has increased competition in banking benefitted
all consumers?
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 12.45
Chair: Andy Davis, Associate Finance Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Bim Afolami MP; Anne Pieckielon,
Director of Product and Strategy, Bacs
How can trade policy and export promotion support
the successful delivery of Brexit and a local industrial strategy?
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 12.45 (Invite only)
Chair: Duncan Weldon, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Richard Graham MP, Trade Envoy for Indonesia, AEC,
Philippines and Malaysia; Tina Hallett, Government and Public
Sector Leader, PWC, Alexander Lockwood Smith, Former
High Commissioner of New Zealand to the UK
How can investment in national infrastructure help to
re-balance the UK economy?
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 12:45
Chair: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Andrew Adonis, Chairman, National Infrastructure Commission;
Nigel Milton, Director of Communications, Heathrow; Adam Marshall,
Director-General, British Chambers of Commerce
What are the myths and realities of self-employment?
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 17.45
Chair: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Simon McVicker,
Director of Policy and External Affairs, IPSE;
Anna Soubry MP (invited)
A question of leadership: Why everything in elections and
public policy hinges on the frontman or woman
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 17.45
Chair: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Andrew Adonis, Chairman, National
Infrastructure Commission
How can trade rebalance the economy in a
post-Brexit Britain?
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 17.45
Chair: Duncan Weldon, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: James Cooper, CEO, Associated British Ports;
Lesley Batchelor, Director General, The Institute of Export
John Howell MP, Trade Envoy for Nigeria
The Devolution Reception
Date: Tuesday 3rd October, 18:00
Chair: Duncan Weldon, Associate Editor, Prospect
Speakers: Jesse Norman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary
of State for Roads, Local Transport and Devolution; Jason Pavey,
Market Director Local Transport, Atkins
The Great Jobs Agenda: How do we get more of the sort of
work that works for everybody?
Date: Monday 9th October, 12.45-14.00
Chairman: Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect
Speaker: Chris Stephens MP, Shadow SNP Spokesperson
on Trade Unions and Workers Rights (invited); Frances
OGrady, General Secretary, TUC