Blue with envy: Have the Tories turned their backs on success?

Hosted by the TaxPayers’ Alliance

Tuesday, 3rd October | 2.00pm – 3.00pm

With a 70 year high tax burden and sluggish growth, have the Tories turned their backs on wealth creation in favour of state intervention and handouts? Are Brits ashamed of success? Why is profit a dirty word? Should we introduce wealth taxes, or should hard work and success be celebrated?

Speakers:

John O’Connell, Chief executive, TaxPayers’ Alliance

Paul Barnes, Chief executive officer, Association for International Retail

Paul has over 25 years’ experience advising clients at board level on public affairs and strategic reputation management, with a focus on property and retail. He is an expert in helping to influence government thinking and in creating coalitions to campaign for policy change.

Emily Fielder, Director of communications, Adam Smith Institute

Emily is the Director of Communications at the Adam Smith Institute. She previously worked in CCHQ as a Political Advisor and Press Secretary to the Chairman of the Conservative Party. She started her career in Parliament working for the Rt Hon Lucy Frazer KC MP. She graduated from the University of St Andrews with a first-class undergraduate degree in English Literature and a distinction in Global Social & Political Thought.

Lance Forman, Owner, H. Forman & Son

Lance is the owner of H.Forman & Son and Forman & Field. He is also Vice Chair of IBN – Independent Business Network and a Board Member of Conservative Friends of Israel. He is a former Brexit Party and Conservative Party MEP and former Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Trade & Industry. He authored Forman’s Games – The Dark Underside of the London Olympics. He obtained his MA from Trinity College, Cambridge in Economics & Management.

Dr Azeem Ibrahim, Research professor, US Army War College

Azeem is a Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, and a Director at the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge after which he completed fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Harvard and Yale.

Ranil Jayawardena MP

Ranil has served as Conservative MP for North East Hampshire since 2015. He is the Chairman of the Conservative Growth Group and has previously served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Minister for International Trade.