Join our joint debate live chat this evening

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Alongise our joint offline debate watch event with the Young Fabians, London Young Labour and LGBT Labour tonight, during which we’ll be leafleting and phone banking, you can also join LabourList, the New Statesman, Liberal Conspiracy and Left Foot Forward online for a special join livechat.

We’ll be bringing together immediate thoughts from leading commentators, including Polly Toynbee and Sunder Katwala, and reacting in realtime to the events of the debate.

The livechat starts at 8pm tonight. Sign up to receive an email reminder here:

Alex Smith

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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