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Fabian New Year Conference 2010 kicked off on Saturday with a keynote speech from the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in front of more than 700 delegates.
* You can read the full text of the Prime Minister's speech here* You can watch excerpts from the speech on the BBC website here* You can listen to podcasts from the panel discussions here* Blogging from the sessions took place all day at Next Left.
Mr Brown was followed throughout Saturday by speakers including Lord Mandelson, Ben Bradshaw MP, Hilary Benn MP, David Lammy MP, Ken Livingstone, Evan Harris MP, Anne Campbell, Vince Cable MP, Polly Toynbee, John Denham MP, Neal Lawson, Sadiq Khan MP, Ben Summerskill, Gaby Hinsliff, John Curtice, David Coats, Jackie Ashley, Nadine Dorries MP, Sunder Katwala, Matthew Taylor, Catherine Fieschi, Peter Kellner, Mehdi Hasan, Jessica Asato, Kerry McCarthy MP, Nick Anstead, Symon Hill, James Forsyth, Ellie Gellard, Will Straw, Stuart White, David Babbs, Matthew Goodwin, Mary Riddell, Douglas Carswell MP, Jenni Russell, Janet Daley, Rachel Reeves, Will Hutton and many more.
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Labour should talk up its record on redistribution, Alistair Darling tells the forthcoming Fabian Review. He admitted they had shied away from this in the past but indicated measures on fairness would be a big part of the election campaign. “There’s been far more redistribution than people realise,” he told Mary Riddell. 
Following on from the day's Pre-Budget Report, John Healey MP, Minister for Housing and Planning, gave a Fabian Society lecture identifying a number of fairness challenges for those within the housing market and those trying to jump onto the property ladder for the first time.
A major new Fabian report sets out a strategy for how to reduce, eliminate and prevent poverty in Britain, even in the recession.
To mark the one-year anniversary of President Obama's electoral victory, the Fabians organised a one-day conference to debate the global issues of most significance. Panelists agreed that a progressive movement for change was possible in Europe, but required politicians to reconnect with the electorate particularly on issues related to climate change, business transparency and humanitarian intervention.
