Past events

Regional Growth Two Years In: Is the government on track to boost UK growth by closing regional divides?

The eighty-first Strand Group event launching a new paper: ‘Regional Growth Two Years In: Is the government on track to boost UK growth by closing regional divides?’ for King’s College London and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

50th Anniversary of the IMF crisis

The eightieth Strand Group event, in partnership with HM Treasury where a panel of Ed Balls, Baroness Jay, Sir Tim Lankester and Lord Macpherson discussed the 50th Anniversary of the IMF Crisis.

“A Pivotal Year for Democracy” The Attlee Foundation Lecture delivered by Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH

Sir John Major warned that democracy is ‘at a pivotal moment’ in King’s College London lecture

In Conversation with Douglas Alexander MP

The seventy-eighth Strand Group event, in partnership with the Policy Institute, took place on 15 October when Douglas Alexander, the Secretary of State for Scotland, discussed the challenges and complexities governments are navigating, both domestic and geopolitical.

Lord Grade: Growth, Innovation and the Future of the Media

The seventy-seventh Strand Group event took place on the 15 July where Lord Grade, the Chair of Ofcom, will give a lecture on ‘Growth, Innovation and the Future of the Media’

Book Launch – The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain’s Public Services

Dr Michelle Clement and Sir Michael Barber launched Dr Clement’s new book ‘The Art of Delivery.’

Wars, fires and pandemics: how events have shaped 350 years of Treasury buildings

The seventy-fifth Strand Group event, where Mario Pisani gave a lecture inside HM Treasury on ‘Wars, fires and pandemics: how events have shaped 350 years of Treasury buildings’.

What should the UK and Europe learn from “Bidenomics”? 

This event launched a new paper for King’s College London and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. A distinguished panel discussed the findings of the report, which provides a “first draft of history” based on on-the-record interviews with outgoing senior Biden administration policymakers and other leading commentators.

Rachel Blake MP: ‘Delivering Change Through Uncertain Times’

The seventy-third Strand Group event, where Rachel Blake, the first ever Labour MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, gave a lecture on: ‘Delivering change through uncertain times’.