Maurice Glasman - Blue Labour: How Only Socialism Can Redeem Conservatism

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture of 2024, writer, human rights activist, philosopher and statesman Lord Maurice Glasman, founder and architect of the Blue Labour movement, will set out how only socialism can redeem the conservative movement in the United Kingdom, presenting a compelling alternative to the visions of recent Conservative and Labour party leaders. After Lord Glasman's talk, he will be joined on stage for a conversation by the philosopher John Gray.

Lord Maurice Glasman is a political theorist, social commentator, and politician. Born in Walthamstow and educated at York and Florence, he has held academic posts at Johns Hopkins University and London Metropolitan. A year after founding the Blue Labour movement in 2009, he was made a member of the House of Lords as a life peer.

John Gray is a political philosopher, columnist for the New Statesman, and a Senior Fellow at Oxford's Pharos Foundation.

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