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CST fringe at Labour Party conference: "Preventing extremism, from those who used to promote it"

23 September 2011

After a successful fringe meeting at Liberal Democrat conference, CST's next fringe event will be at Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday 26th September at 9am. Held in partnership with ISCR, the panel will be chaired by CST's Mike Whine and includes:

  • Shiraz Maher, a former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir and now a research fellow at ICSR
  • Matthew Collins, a former member of the National Front, now working for Searchlight Educational Trust and author of Hate: My Life in the British Far Right
  • Rt. Hon. Hazel Blears MP for Salford & Eccles and former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
  • Jamie Bartlett, Head of the Violence and Extremism programme, Demos

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