Shortlist Debate 2010: Has the political class been fatally weakened?

Thursday 15 April, 2010
7:00pm

Thomson Reuters Building
30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London
E14 5EP

Fee: Free

David Halpern (research director of the Institute for Government, former chief analyst at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit)
Helena Kennedy QC (lawyer, broadcaster and writer, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2005)
Cristina Odone (journalist, novelist and broadcaster)
Meg Russell (deputy director of the UCL Constitution Unit, adviser to the Wright Committee on parliamentary reform)
Chaired by Jodie Ginsberg (UK and Ireland Bureau Chief, Thomson Reuters)

This year’s shortlists – of 6 books, 7 journalists and 6 bloggers – were announced before a sparky debate on whether the political class had been fatally weakened by recent events including the expenses scandal.