Sunday at Labour conference 2024: LabourList events not to miss from our rally to debates on childcare, privatisation and the Greens

Labour Party conference kicks off on Sunday with a whole host of events and speeches for members to attend.

Find out below what events LabourList is hosting on Sunday:

Conspiracy theories: Do we tolerate on the left what we fight on the right?

10.30am – 11.30am Sunday – Meeting Room 11a, ACC Liverpool

• Mark Rusling, director of learning, National Holocaust Museum
• Joani Reid MP, Chair of the APPG on Antisemitism
• Mike Katz, Jewish Labour Movement chair
• Adam Langleben, Progressive Britain executive director
• Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary (invited)
• Georgia Gould, MP for Queens Park and Maida Vale (invited)

In partnership with the National Holocaust Centre & Museum.

We all condemn rioters throwing bricks at children while shouting ‘Save Our Kids’.

But are we as quick to recognise left-wing conspiracy theories? And might the left be even more susceptible to them than the right?

Turning the Rising Green Tide

11.30am – 12.30pm Sunday – Meeting Room 11a, ACC Liverpool

• Robert Knowles-Leak, who worked in Thangam Debbonaire’s team during the general election
• Bella Sankey, leader of Brighton & Hove City Council
• Tom Renhard, leader of the Labour Group in Bristol City Council and former leader of Bristol City Council
• Paul Mason, journalist and activist
• Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity

Can Labour’s bus revolution end decades of failed privatisation?

12.30pm – 1.30pm Sunday – Meeting Room 11a, ACC Liverpool

• Simon Lightwood, Labour MP and minister for local transport
• Kim McGuinness, North East Mayor
• Cat Hobbs, director of We Own It
• Matthew Topham, lead campaigner of We Own It
• Fran Postlethwaite, convenor of Better Buses for South Yorkshire
• Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester mayor (invited)

In partnership with We Own It.

After nearly 40 years of failed bus privatisation, Labour Mayors are taking back control of buses and new legislation looks set to build on these victories.

What is the legacy of Thatcher’s experiment and how will the new government’s plans put passengers over profit?

How Labour can reduce health inequality in towns and cities by prioritising clean air policy?

1.30pm – 2.30pm Sunday – Meeting Room 11a, ACC Liverpool

• Afzal Khan, Labour MP for Manchester Rusholme
• Adam Jogee, Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme
• Emma Hardy, Labour MP and Defra minister responsible for clean air (invited)
• Larissa Lockwood, Director of Clean Air, Global Action Plan
• Dr Sinead Millwood, GP and Clean Air Campaigner
• Love Ssega, Founder, Live + Breathe

In partnership with Global Action Plan and Impact on Urban Health.

Please note that this event will start at 1.30pm, not at 12.30pm as stated in the app.

Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health, with 43,000 deaths linked to toxic air each year in the UK.

This conversation will outline how a Labour government can improve the health and wellbeing of people in towns and cities and reduce health inequalities by adopting ambitious clean air policies to tackle the main sources of air pollution – transport and wood burning.

Childcare and early education: A return on investment

2.00pm – 3.00pm Sunday – Revolucion de Cuba Bar, Albert Dock (Casa bar room, upstairs)

• Stephen Morgan MP, minister for early education
• ​Stella Creasy, Labour MP and Mummafesto podcast host
• Annabel Smith, Director of Place and Practice, CPP
• Sarah Ronan, director of Early Education and Childcare Coalition
• Tom Belger, editor of LabourList

In partnership with the Centre for Progressive Policy. More information is available here via Eventbrite.

A range of complimentary drinks and a bar tab will be available at this event.

LabourList Rally with WPI and PPI

4.20pm – 6.00pm Sunday – Revolucion de Cuba Bar, Albert Dock (Casa bar room, upstairs)

• Lisa Nandy, MP for Wigan and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
• Liz Kendall, MP for Leicester West and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
• Alison McGovern, MP for Birkenhead and minister for employment
• Sarah Jones, Labour MP for Croydon West and minister for industry
• Jon Ashworth, Chief Executive of Labour Together, former MP for Leicester South and former Shadow Paymaster General
• Jade Botterill, Labour MP for Ossett and Denby Dale
• Yuan Yang, Labour MP for Earley and Woodley
• Alice Macdonald, Labour MP for Norwich North
• Lindsay Lewis, Executive Director at US think tank Progressive Policy Institute
• Claire Ainsley, Progressive Policy Institute centre-left renewal director, WPI Strategy senior adviser, and former Labour policy director for Keir Starmer
• David Kogan OBE, LabourList chair and Labour historian
• Tom Belger,  LabourList editor
• Lots more Labour speakers TBC

In partnership with WPI Strategy and the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI).

A range of complimentary drinks and a bar tab will be available at this event. No tickets required.

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