Bookings for "Starmer Year One" conference now open

The Labour History Research Unit is delighted to announce that bookings for its conference 'Starmer Year One' are now open on the ARU store.

The conference will take place on ARU's Cambridge campus on Saturday 14 June 2025.

Confirmed speakers currently include Tim Bale, Patrick Diamond, Jonathan Portes, Jovan Owesu-Nepaul, Kevin Hockson, and Emily Stacey, among others.

This will be the first conference (and hopefully a book too, down the line) to evaluate the record of the Starmer government. By the time of the conference, Labour will have been in power for almost a year and politics might be a little different. The results of the May 2025 local elections show that that the political landscape of Britain is changing.

We have assembled a fabulous panel of experts who will probe the government's record to date and analyse the challenges of governing Britain in the mid-2020s, in both domestic and foreign policy. The conference will be a great day of political discussion, hopefully leading to policy recommendations and further political initiatives.

All members of the public are welcome (including those who don't support the government!).

For more information, please contact [email protected].

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