Friday 2 September, 18.30-19.45
Progressive Alliances: The case for cross-party working and why it could be a game-changer for the Green Party
This session will explore the various options that collectively get
called a 'progressive alliance'. It will launch a new book on this, “The
Alternative”, which has been co-edited by 3 of our panellists. Signed
copies will be available for sale afterwards. It will also launch the
Green House report, The Green Case for a Progressive Pact, which will
also be on sale at the event.
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Chair - Zoe Williams has
been a columnist on the Guardian since 2000 - previously, she wrote a
column for the London Evening Standard. In her ceaseless endeavour to
smash the patriarchy, she contributes to various magazines and news
weeklies, including Marie Claire, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Red and
Grazia. Broadcasting includes Question Time, the Daily Politics, The
Politics Show and Newsnight for the BBC; Dispatches and the Channel Four
News for Channel Four; a paper review for Sky News; and appearances on
the Today programme, Any Questions, Woman's Hour, PM and the World
Tonight for BBC Radio Four. She was 2014's Restaurant Reviewer of the
Year, 2013's Print Journalist of the Year for the Speaking Together
Awards, 2011's Columnist of the Year at the Workworld awards and is
author of three non-fiction books, Get It Together: Why We Deserve
Better Politics, The Madness of Modern Parenting and Bring It On, Baby. |
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Rupert Read chairs Green House (www.greenhousethinktank.org ).
He co-authored Green House's report on prospects for a progressive pact
and was the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Cambridge in 2015. |
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Caroline Lucas was elected as Member of Parliament
for Brighton Pavilion in 2010. She served as leader of the Green Party
of England and Wales from 2008 to 2012. From 1999-2010 she served as one
of the Party's first MEPs and represented the South East region until
becoming the UK's first Green MP in 2011. |
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Neal Lawson is Chair of the good society pressure group Compass and was author of All Consuming (Penguin, 2009) and co-editor of The Progressive Century (Palgrave, 2001). He serves on the Advisory Board of We own it!, is a Contributing Editor of the social democracy journal Renewal which he helped found and is an Associate Member at the Bauman Institute at Leeds University. He writes regularly for the Guardian and the New Statesman. |
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Chris Bowers is a writer and broadcaster,
specialising in tennis, environment and politics. He commentates on
tennis for radio and television, has written several books, and counts
as a tennis historian; he was the founder of the Environmental Transport
Association in 1990, and works as a communications consultant for the
European Federation for Transport and Environment; and he is the
biographer of Nick Clegg. He is a former Liberal Democrat councillor on
Lewes District Council, and stood for Parliament for the Lib Dems in
2010 and 2015. More on www.chrisbowers.org. |
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Lisa Nandy is the Member of Parliament for Wigan.
Since being elected she has campaigned in Parliament to tackle child
abuse, to save the Education Maintenance Allowance and against human
rights abuses in Palestine. She has fought against low pay and zero
hours contracts and campaigned against growing poverty in Wigan and
across the country. In September 2015 Lisa was appointed Shadow
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. |
