{"id":63,"date":"2016-09-16T15:19:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=63"},"modified":"2017-05-08T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T15:16:51","slug":"city-redi-fringe-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/city-redi-fringe-events\/","title":{"rendered":"City-REDI Fringe Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>DEVO QUESTION TIME: WHAT WILL LABOUR\u2019S METRO MAYORS DO FOR YOU?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>At the Labour Party Conference 2016<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Monday 26<sup>th<\/sup> September, 5.30-7.00pm<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>4<sup>th<\/sup> Floor Events Suite, the Tate Gallery on Albert Dock<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Refreshments provided<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Confirmed speakers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Labour\u2019s Metro Mayor candidate for Greater Manchester<\/li>\n<li>Steve Rotheram MP, Labour\u2019s Metro Mayor candidate for Liverpool City Region<\/li>\n<li>Sion Simon MEP, Labour\u2019s Metro Mayor candidate for West Midlands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>DEVO QUESTION TIME: WHAT WILL THE NORTHERN POWERHOUSE AND MIDLANDS ENGINE DO FOR YOU?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>At the Conservative Party Conference 2016<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Tuesday 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October, 12.45-2.00pm<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Lodges 1 and 2, Austin Court, Birmingham\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>(Next to the ICC &#8211; <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>B1 2NP)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Refreshments provided<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Confirmed speakers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cllr Sean Anstee, Leader of Trafford Council (Greater Manchester)<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Tim Warren, Leader of Bath and NE Somerset Council (West of England)<\/li>\n<li>Cllr Rob Waltham, Deputy Leader of North Lincolnshire County Council (Greater Lincolnshire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Both events to be chaired by:\u00a0Dr Adam Marshall, Acting Director General at the British Chambers of Commerce<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Partner speakers at each event will be: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Dan Corry, Chief Executive, New Philanthropy Capital<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Professor John Bryson, Director, City REDI<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Tim Hawkins, Corporate Affairs Director, Manchester Airport Group<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Gill Morris, Chief Executive, Devo Connect<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>City-REDI is co-hosting Devo Question Time fringe events at the Labour and Conservative Party conferences this year, and we have a good panel of speakers. These include: at Labour, all three Labour candidates selected so far, and at Conservative, a range of leading Councillors at the forefront of the devo debate.<\/p>\n<p>These high-profile events give you an opportunity to ask your question to prospective Mayoral candidates as well as to debate where devolution is \u2013 and should be \u2013 headed, now Theresa May is Prime Minister, Philip Hammond is Chancellor and Sajd Javid is at CLG.<\/p>\n<p>Devo Question Time will be <strong><em>the\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>devolution fringe at each of this year\u2019s party conferences. Please don&#8217;t miss the\u00a0opportunity to quiz the Mayoral candidates on their respective visions and priorities, including whether this marks a new dawn both for prosperity and political engagement, as well as discuss what the devolution revolution means for England\u2019s cities and counties in a post-Brexit, post-Cameron world.<\/p>\n<p>To book on to the sessions please email Fiona Gardner via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:f.gardner@connectpa.co.uk\">f.gardner@connectpa.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEVO QUESTION TIME: WHAT WILL LABOUR\u2019S METRO MAYORS DO FOR YOU? At the Labour Party Conference 2016 Monday 26th September, 5.30-7.00pm 4th Floor Events Suite, the Tate Gallery on Albert Dock Refreshments provided Confirmed speakers Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Labour\u2019s Metro Mayor candidate for Greater Manchester Steve Rotheram MP, Labour\u2019s Metro Mayor candidate for Liverpool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/city-redi-fringe-events\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City-REDI Fringe Events&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,41,13],"tags":[30,40],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","category-events","category-government","tag-devolution","tag-fringe-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}