Every morning throughout party conference season, we’ll be providing our pick of the fringe events on Coffee House.
Today is the first day of Labour’s annual conference in Brighton. The conference officially kicks off at 11:00am and there are plenty of interesting fringes with shadow cabinet members, trade unionists and prominent party figures around the main speeches :
| Title | Key speaker(s) | Time | Location |
| Chuka Umunna in conversation with the New Statesman | Chuka Umunna | 12:30 | Tennyson, Thistle Hotel |
|
Real Britain – battling austerity and Con-Dem cuts |
Len McCluskey | 12:30 | Alexandra Room, De Vere Grand Hotel |
| Road to full employment | Liam Byrne | 12:30 | Norfolk Suite, Mercure Hotel |
| Lessons from Germany’s low carbon energy revolution | Caroline Flint | 12:30 | Ashdown 2, Holiday Inn |
| Young Labour’s Question Time | Lord Adonis, Owen Jones, Dan Hodges, Lisa Nandy | 12:45 | Hall 4, Hilton Metropole |
| The Big Interview with Maria Eagle | Maria Eagle | 13:00 | Durham Hall 2, Hilton Metropole |
| Diane Abbott in conversation with the New Statesman | Diane Abbott | 14:00 | Wordsworth, Thistle Hotel |
| A new transport policy for Labour | Maria Eagle | 17:30 | Kings Terrace, De Vere Grand |
| The ‘tail’ of underachievement: how our schools fail one child in five | Lord Adonis | 17:30 | Lancing 1, Holiday Inn |
| Supporting job creators: what should a Labour government do? | Chuka Umunna | 17:45 | Osborne, Hilton Metropole |
| Fabian Question Time: Public spending choices | Rachel Reeves | 18:00 | Coast View Suite, Mercure Hotel |
| Getting welfare right for disabled people | Liam Byrne | 18:00 | Hall 7 Trent, Hilton Metropole |
| Labour – an open tribe? | Caroline Lucas, Jon Cruddas, Lisa Nandy | 18:00 | Balmoral, Hilton Metropole |
| Young Labour annual reception | Ed Miliband, Harriet Harman | 18:00 | Cambridge, Hilton Metropole |
| Progress rally | Lord Adonis, Stella Creasy, Gloria De Piero, Maria Eagle, Caroline Flint, Stephen Twigg | 18:00 | Odeon Cinema |
| Influencing tomorrow: future challenges for British foreign policy | Douglas Alexander | 18:30 | Tudor, Old Ship Hotel |
| The LabourList rally: countdown to 2015 | Stella Creasy, Tom Watson, Polly Toynbee, Owen Jones | 18:30 | Charlotte Room, De Vere Grand |
| After liberalism: the balance of reason and emotion in modern politics | John Denham, David Goodhart, Jonathan Portes, Rowenna... |
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