September 20th @ 7.30 pm
Tom Copley is a list Member on the Greater London Authority and was recently elected to Lewisham Council. He is the lead on Housing issues for the Labour Group on the Assembly. Tom is an excellent speaker, who knows his subject! This will be his second visit, the first being a joint meeting with Hornchurch and Upminster Labour Party. The date is 20th September and the venue is Roope Hall Station Road Upminster
October 17th @7.30pm
.Grace Blakeley from the Institute of Public Policy and research will be the speaker at the October meeting on 17th October. Grace Blakeley is a research fellow at the IPPR. She works on macroeconomic policy with a particular focus on the finance sector. Her recent publications include On Borrowed Time: Finance and the UK’s Current Account Deficit and Fair Dues: Rebalancing Business Taxation in the UK. She is currently on sabbatical writing a book on the financialisaton of the UK economy
The venue will be the Gallery Studio Fairkytes Billet Lane Hornchurch Subject Labour party economic policy generally and Grace will also cover the book she is writing about the financialisaton of the UK economy.
November date and venue tbc
We are hoping to have a panel discussion on Health and will confirm details once our speakers have confirmed,
January 2019 – AGM and Lord Roy Kennedy
On Friday 25th January at 7.30pm, we will have our AGM, followed by Lord Roy Kennedy, labour and Coop Peer, Shadow Housing and Local Government minister
