Sebastian Payne

Conservative conference: Tuesday fringe guide

Every morning throughout party conference season, we’ll be providing our pick of the fringe events on Coffee House.

It’s the third day of the annual Tory conference in Manchester and like yesterday, today is jam packed with tens of  fringes with interesting party members, MPs and the like. Here’s the best, ignore the rest:

Title Key speaker(s) Time Location
Renegotiate and Referendum: How to make the strategy work Tim Loughton, David Lidington, Andrea Leadsom, Mats Persson 08:00 Midland Hotel : Trafford Room

Killing the zombies and raising the innovators

Andrew Tyrie, Will Hutton 08:15 Manchester Central: Exchange 6 & 7
Internet Matters: Digital policy to accelerate the economy Adam Afriyie 08:30 Chetham Room, Novotel Centre
Clicks and Mortar: Education as a global export David Willetts, Lord Wei 08:30 Rylands Room, Novotel Centre
Electronic medical records: Whose information is it anyway? Nick Pickles, Sarah Wollaston 09.00 Hilton Manchester Deansgate:8&9
Ministers and Mandarins? How politicians and civil servants can work better together Francis Maude, Nick Herbert, Anne McElvoy, Paul Goodman 10.00 Manchester Central: ConservativeHome Marquee
How to fix corporate taxes David Gauke, Allister Heath 11:00 The Freedom Zone: Barbirolli Room
Policy Exchange & UCL Public Policy Greg Barker 11:30 Rylands Room, Novotel Centre
Why are left wing activists being funded with your taxes? Eric Pickles, Matthew Sinclair 12.15 Barbirolli Room, The Freedom Zone
High Speed Rail: Transforming our northern economies Patrick McLoughlin 12:30 Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road: Garratt Suite 1
The global fight against online child sexual abuse content Maria Miller, Claire Perry 12:30 Midland Hotel: Rolls Suite
Three decades of declining trust in Government Chloe Smith 12:30 Manchester Central: Exchange 6 & 7
Building the schools we want: What can be done to deliver high performance? Charlotte Leslie, Chris Skidmore 12:30 Marriott Victoria and Albert : John Logie Baird Suite 1
To be or not to be in the EU? Kenneth Clarke, Bill Cash 12:30 Manchester Central: Charter 4
Opportunity Knocks: What can Conservatives do to capture voters now? Stephan Shakespeare, David Skelton 12:30 Manchester Central: Central 3
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