Good morning, 

As you know, the political party conference season has moved online this year, and we are delighted to invite you to a series of upcoming events we are hosting during the virtual Conservative Party Conference. 

From Sunday 4th to Tuesday 6th October, the TaxPayers’ Alliance and the Institute of Economic Affairs will host ThinkTent. Now in its 7th year, it is a Conference institution.

As usual, we will be hosting politicians, journalists, academics, and business leaders to discuss some of the key issues facing the country. 

All the events will be live streamed on YouTube, so anyone can join in the debates. The schedule is below, and more details for each event can be found by clicking on the title of the session. 

We hope you can join us! 

Best wishes,
Sara

Sara Rainwater, Operations Director
TaxPayers' Alliance, 55 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QL
+44 (0) 20 7998 1450

Think Tent line up
www.thinktent.co.uk

Sunday 4th October | 12:30 – 13:30
Hosted by the TPA and the IEA
Carbon tax – Is this the right’s answer to climate change?
Speakers:
Danielle Boxall (Chair), Media Campaign Manager of the TaxPayers’ Alliance
Stephen Fitzpatrick, Founder of the Zero Carbon campaign and Founder & CEO of OVO Energy
Professor Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford
Tony Lodge, Energy expert and Director of Political Communications, New Century Media
Jamie Whyte, Classical liberal academic and author of “Crimes Against Logic”

Sunday 4th October | 16.00-17.00
Hosted by the Heritage Foundation
UK Free Trade After Brexit: The United States and Beyond
Speakers:
Ted Bromund (Chair), Senior Research Fellow in Anglo‑American Relations Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, Heritage Foundation
Rt Hon Liz Truss MP, Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities
Shanker Singham, CEO of the Competere Group, Chairman of Global Vision UK, and a former cleared advisor to USTR and the UK Trade Secretary
Dan Hannan, UK trade adviser, President of the Initiative for Free Trade and Visiting Professor at the University of Francisco Marroquín
 

Monday 5th October | 13:00 – 14:00
Hosted by the TPA and the IEA
Fiscal policy: tax and spend and how to repair the public finances after coronavirus
Speakers:
Andy Silvester (Chair), Deputy Editor, City A.M.
Steve Baker MP, Member of Parliament for Wycombe
Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs
Matthew Lynn, Financial Columnist at the Daily Telegraph
John O’Connell, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance

Monday 5th October | 14:30 – 15:30
Hosted by the TPA, IEA and the Free Speech Union
The free speech crisis
Speakers:
Mark Littlewood (Chair), Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs
Inaya Folarin Iman, Founder and Director of the Equiano Project
Laurence Fox, Actor and Activist
James Price, Director at Hanover Communications and President-Elect of the Oxford Union
Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union

Monday 5th October | 18:00 – 19.00
Hosted by the IEA and RSSB
Can the railways get back on track post-covid?
Speakers:
Syed Kamall (Chair), Academic and Research Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs
Mary Grant, CEO of Porterbrook
Chris Heaton-Harris MP, Minister of State for Transport
Chris Loder MP, Member of Parliament for West Dorset
Mark Phillips, CEO of the Rail Safety and Standards Board

Tuesday, 6th October | 9.00-10.00
Hosted by the TPA and the IEA
BBC and C4 – What next for the state broadcasters?
Speakers:
Martin Durkin (Chair), CEO of Wag Entertainment
Prof. Philip Booth, Senior Academic Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs
Andrea Jenkyns MP, Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood
Duncan Simpson, Research Director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance
Rt Hon John Whittingdale OBE MP, Minister of State for Media and Data in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport