18:00 – 18:10

Opening Remarks

18:10 – 19:40

Panel: Lessons for Free Market Advocates from Liz Truss’z Time in Office

When Liz Truss became Prime Minister, she announced sweeping free market reforms with her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng. The political backlash was immediate and unprecedented, and led to her resignation after less than two months in office.
How has Truss’s time in office affected the way free market ideas are viewed by the general public? Has the Overton Window shifted, and if so, in which direction?

Speaker:

• Eamonn Butler
• Razi Ginzberg
• Max Rangeley

19:40 – 21:00

Panel: The Enemies of Entrepreneurship

In the culture at large, lip service is still paid to the notion that entrepreneurship is good. But the list of reasons to restrict business and innovation is ever growing, from net zero to zero Covid, to the supposed risks of technology. How can we stand up to the enemies of entrepreneurship?

Speaker:

• Hannes Gissurarson
• Barbara Kolm
• Dan Mitchell
• Thomas Borwick