Zoe Gardner, Paul Holden and Albie Amankona chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Join our panel of leading political and media figures Zoe Gardner, Paul Holden and Albie Amankona for lively debate on topics of the day, chaired by Yasmin Alibhai Brown. Ticketholders will be invited to email questions before the event, and Alibhai-Brown will pick a representative range for audience members to ask.

Gardner is an independent migration policy researcher and campaigner who works in the UK and across Europe to promote rights-based and effective migration and refugee policies. She appears regularly on television, including on Sky News and BBC Newsnight.

Holden is the author of The Fraud: Kier Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and The Crisis of British Democracy. He has over a decade of experience investigating corruption and corporate malfeasance, including as the senior researcher on the book and feature documentary Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade. He is a network fellow at the Safra Centre for Ethics at Harvard University.

Amankona is a broadcaster and financial analyst whose work explores the intersection of politics, identity and economic policy. He co-hosted The Saturday Five on GB News from March 2023 to August 2024. Amankona is co-founder of Conservatives Against Racism For Equality and sits on the general council of LGBT+ Conservatives.

Debate is chaired by Alibhai-Brown, a British journalist and author who has written extensively on issues of diversity and social justice. Her books include In Defence of Political Correctness, Refusing the Veil and Exotic England: The Making of a Curious Nation.