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🗓️ New Date: Wednesday, 19th November 2025
The New Statesman’s annual Politics Live conference takes on the most important topics in UK politics.
Through panel discussions, live interviews and debates, leading lights from Westminster, industry and beyond come together to interrogate the most topical and urgent policy issues of the day.
Join us on Wednesday 19th of November 2025, to hear insights from experts, politicians and industry leaders; network with fellow influential guests and address the issues that are shaping the present and will determine the country’s future.
NS Politics Live will cover
➤ How can we future proof our public services?
➤ Digital futures: How can tech and innovation solve the productivity puzzle?
➤ Live long and prosper: How can better health support the economy?
➤ How can international cooperation make us safer and more prosperous?
➤ Skills and social mobility: How can we train, upskill and grow the workforce of the future?
➤ Decarbonising industry: How can businesses help us lead the world on net zero?
Just some of our past speakers

Sir Keir Starmer MP
Prime Minister

Jeremy Hunt MP
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer

Bridget Phillipson MP
Secretary of State for Education

Ben Wallace
Former Secretary of State for Defence

Daisy Cooper MP
Deputy Leader, Liberal Democrats

Chi Onwurah MP
Chair, Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP
Chair, Defence Select Committee

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert
Saïd Professorship of Vaccinology, University of Oxford

Martin Lewis CBE
Founder and Executive Chair, Money Saving Expert

Sir William Browder KCMG
CEO Hermitage Capital Management, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and Author of 'Red Notice' and 'Freezing Order '






The below organisations have provided sponsorship funding to support this event and have had no influence over the content of the event or selection of speakers.