Date: Saturday 18th June
Time: 9.30am – 5.30pm
Venue: City University
Coffee, tea and soft drinks will be available during the breaks. For lunch, please make use of nearby cafes and pubs, or bring your own sandwiches.
| 09.00-09.30 | Registration | |
| 09.30-09.40 | Welcome Address | Mark Blackburn (Chair: Mary Reid) |
| 09.40-10.45 | Where we are, and how we got here | James Graham, Will Hutton, Neal Lawson, Simon Hughes (Chair: Paula Keaveney) |
| 10.45-11.00 | Tea break | |
| 11.00–12.15 | Deficit reduction – Ideology or Necessity? | Vince Cable, Ed Randall (Chair: Sue Doughty) |
| 12.15-13.30 | Health reforms – good for us? | Dr. Evan Harris, Allyson Pollock, Graham Winyard (Chair: Sandra Gidley) |
| 12.15-13.30 | Inequality, social mobility and pay – what does fairness look like? | Prateek Buch, Tim Nichols (Chair: Claire Tyler) |
| 13.30-14.30 | Lunch | |
| 14.30-15.45 | The triple crunch – credit, fuel and food | Chris Huhne, Alexis Rowell, Halina Ward (Chair: Naomi Smith) |
| 14.30-15.45 | Are the Big Society and Community Politics compatible? | Simon Hebditch, Mark Pack, Alex Marsh (Chair: Lee Chalmers) |
| 15.45-16.00 | Tea break | |
| 16.00-17.30 | Political alignments and delivering the social liberal agenda | Shirley Williams (invited), Richard Grayson, Matthew Sowemimo, David Hall-Matthews (Chair: Linda Jack) |
Will we need our passports? CRB checks? Credt references?
My wife tends to smile a lot, will she be allowed in?
The only reason for heightened security at Conference is that the police and others perceived a heightened threat. Why would the public authorities impose security measures that they did not consider to be merited? Now that we are a party of government, we face heightened security, at a time at which the UK faces terrorist threats from a variety of sources. Some people might wish that such threats did not really exist, but they undoubtedly do exist. I’m afraid that I don’t find Mr Watts’ joke funny.
If Mr Harris doesn’t find it funny, why does he describe it as a joke?
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Hi all
I did make the conference and enjoyed every minute of it .The venue presented some challenges but the qaulity of debate made up for it .
Can i suggest however that some very interesting future policy proposals were made but in terms of member engagement not enough qeustions were taken from the floor .This could be substantially improved by focused workshops and be a lot more inclusive for those that attended .A one day event at an affordable price made a refreshing change for a Liberal Democrat event well done to the organisers.
Perhaps next time we do it outside of London to keep the travel costs
down as well ?
I would like copies of discussion and presentation material emailed
to me if you can please .on line we can develop strong motions to conference.