Programme for the PEF 25 Conference SOAS 15.5.25

Full list of speakers at the PEF conference 2025 and their bios

Come to the PEF conference on 15th May at SOAS 9.30am-6.15pm

Register for the PEF conference at the Brunei Theatre , SOAS on 15th May 9.30pm -6pm

In an open letter coordinated by the think-tank Compassion in Politics, academics including PEF Council members Ha-Joon Chang and Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson – authors of the widely read The Spirit Level – warn Starmer that his current approach mimics the “economic orthodoxy that has made this country poorer, less cohesive and more unequal than fifteen years ago.”