PEF hosted two events at the Labour Party conference in Brighton this year
Sunday 26th September 2021
Metropole Hotel
Title “A Progressive Recovery”
Chair Patrick Allen (Founder and Chair of PEF)
Speakers:
Rachel Reeves MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester
Grace Blakely , economist, commentator and author, formerly of IPPR
Josh Ryan-Collins, Head of Finance and Macroeconomics at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose , PEF Council Member
Johnna Montgomerie, Professor of International Political Economy, King’s College London, PEF Council Member
Sue Himmelweit , Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Open University, PEF Council member
Tuesday 28th September 2021
The World Transformed , Old Steine Gardens, Big Tent, 55 Old Steine, Brighton BN1 1NH
Title “Winning the case for Transformative Left Economics”
Speakers:
John McDonnell MP, formerly Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Matthew Brown (leader, Preston Council)
Carolina Alves Joan Robinson Fellow, Cambridge and PEF Council member
Antonia Jennings Centre for Local Economic Strategies
Guy Standing economist, author , PEF Council member
James Meadway Chair , PEF Director
Intro Patrick Allen PEF Chair
Both events were packed out and we sold 25 copies of our book , The Return of the State!
