Speakers announced so far
Ros Wynne-Jones the Mirror
Jacqui Smith former Home Secretary
Margaret McDonagh former Labour Party General Secretary
Kat Segal Labour Party Digital Director
Mary Riddell the Telegraph
Luciana Berger MP Shadow Minister for Public Health
Bonnie Greer playwright
Alison McGovern MP Shadow DFID Minister
Amy Lamé broadcaster
Rowenna Davis New Statesman and PPC for Southampton
Carys Afoko New Economics Foundation
Cath Speight GMB and Labour’s NEC
Sophy Gardner former RAF Wing Commander and PPC for Gloucester
Ruth Smeeth HOPE not Hate
Purna Sen PPC for Brighton Pavilion
Helen Pearce Unions Together
Cllr Caroline Badley Campaign Coordinator Birmingham Edgbaston
Kezia Dugdale MSP Chair, Movement for Change
Clare Moody Unite and European Candidate for the South West
@BevaniteEllie Labour activist
Fiona Mactaggart Chair of the Women's PLP
Sarah Mulley Associate Director for Migration, Integration and Communities at IPPR
Catherine West PPC Hornsey and Wood Green
Sue Marsh writer Diary of Benefit Scrounger blog and founder of the Spartacus Network
Tessa Jowell former Minister for the Olympics
Karin Christiansen General Secretary of the Co-op Party
Angela Eagle Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Chair of Labour’s National Policy Forum
Claire Leigh Co-Chair Labour Campaign for International Development
Anna Turley PPC for Redcar
We're very excited to be hosting a panel entitled View from the Outside: Can Labour win? where we'll be joined by political opponents for an honest discussion on what Labour is doing right and wrong in the run up to 2015.
We'll be joined for this panel by;
- Sheila Gunn, John Major's former press advisor and author of So you Want to be a Political Journalist?
- Olly Grender, Liberal Democrat Peer and former Director of Communications at the Lib Dems
- Ann Leslie, Daily Mail journalist and broadcaster
Conference themes
Will Labour win from the centre or the left?
Leaving our comfort zone: regaining Labour’s lost voters
The ground war: beating the Tories, the Lib Dems, the Greens and UKIP
Changing to win: making Labour fit for purpose
Question Time with Amy Lamé, Margaret McDonagh and Bonnie Greer
We will be hosting visitors from Labour's sister parties in nearly a dozen countries, including Ghana, Botswana, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Jordan.
And the programme for the day includes a special session in which women from Labour's Sister Parties in the Middle East will be speaking on their experiences of the Arab Spring and how they are working to support and empower women in their countries, ensuring that the voices of women aren't lost after revolution. The panel will be chaired by Claire Leigh, Co-Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development and offers a unique chance to hear the inspirational stories of these women.
Confirmed for this very special Panel so far are: