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 |
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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 |
| The Future Of The Railways: 20 years of privatisation | Simon Burns | 13.00 | Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel : Pankhurst |
| Garry Gibbon in conversation with George Osborne | George Osborne | 13.00 | Manchester Central, Exchange 9 |
| Mehdi Hasan in conversation with Zac Goldsmith MP | Zac Goldsmith, Mehdi Hasan | 13.00 | Manchester Central: Central 7 |
| Why I left the Tories vs Why I’m staying | James Delingpole, Roger Helmer | 13.30 | The Freedom Zone: The Barbirolli Room |
| Inspiring girls: how can we encourage young women to be ambitious and fulfil their potential? | Maria Miller | 14.15 | Arora Hotel : Charters Suite |
| How can the Government help small business? | Sajid Javid, Matthew Sinclair | 14.30 | Manchester Central: ConservativeHome Marquee |
| A More Liberated NHS?* | Andrew Lansley | 14.30 | Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel : Beecham |
| The UK in a global race: Competitiveness of UK financial services | Greg Clark, Tim Montgomerie | 15:00 | Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel: Richter |
| Defence: Delivering economic growth & security | Philip Hammond | 17:00 | Manchester Central: Central 4 |
| Carlton Club Political Committee Fringe Event | Theresa May | 17:30 | Manchester Central: Exchange 1 |
| Falling living standards and rising child poverty: The challenge for 2015 | Claire Perry, Tim Montgomerie | 17:30 | Midland Hotel: Victoria Suite |
| Defence Policy for the next General Election | Philip Hammond, Gerald Howarth | 17:30 | Manchester Central: Exchange 10 |
| Does the Tory Party ‘get’ the North? | Guy Opperman, David Skelton | 17:30 | Manchester Central: Exchange 4 & 5 |
| The cost of living: The new battleground | Elizabeth Truss, Dan Hodges, Mark Littlewood | 17:30 | Manchester Central: Cobden 3 |
| Infrastructure investment and regional growth* | Amber Rudd | 17:30 | Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel: Harty |
| What can the NHS learn from reforms to education? | Jeremy Hunt, Nick Gibb | 17:30 | Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel : Barbirolli |
| Peak everything: Resource constraints and a secure and prosperous future | Liam Fox | 17:30 | Manchester Central: Exchange 8 |
| The Policing Fringe | Damian Green, Hugh Orde | 17:30 | Manchester Central: Cobden 4 |
| Can research and innovation fuel the UK economy? | David Willets | 17:30 | Manchester Central: Exchange 6 & 7 |
| Funding the UK’s future infrastructure needs | Patrick McLoughlin | 17:30 | Manchester Central: Central 8 |
| Good business: What role should business play in the local community? | Robert Halfon | 18.00 | Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel: Thackeray |
| Hub Airport or Hub London? | Zac Goldsmith, Steven Norris | 18.00 | Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St: Main Hall |
| New Statesman in conversation with the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP | Kenneth Clarke | 18.30 | Manchester Town Hall: Lord Mayor’s Parlour |
| Can England ever love coalitions? | Peter Bone, Peter Oborne | 19.30 | Midland Hotel: Derby Suite |
| Getting the balance right: The right kind of recovery? | Oliver Letwin, Danny Alexander, Frances O’Grady | 19.30 | Manchester Central: Central 7 |
| An evening with The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP | Iain Duncan Smith, Christian Guy, Fraser Nelson | 19.30 | Manchester Central: Exchange 11 |
| CFI Annual Members Reception | Liam Fox | 21:30 | Midland Hotel: Alexandra B |
| Save the Children & ConservativeHome evening Reception | William Hague, Tim Montgomerie, Justin Forsyth | 21:30 | Midland Hotel: Petersfield Suite |
If you have any good fringe spots we’ve missed, why not let us know in the comments below?
Events marked * are invite only
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