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Levelling-up or Left Behind?

Saturday 7 October, 2022

Two leading experts, Dr Fiona Hill and Professor John Tomaney, discussed the restoration of communities and the renewal of opportunity and social mobility. They answered audience questions on the records of recent UK governments, the impact of conflict on the world stage, the vital role of education, and much more.

We were delighted to be joined by groups of students from local Church of England and Roman Catholic schools, and their teachers.

Thanks to the Durham branch of Stowe Family Law for sponsoring this event.

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Read more about the speakers

Fiona Hill

Fiona Hill, former intelligence analyst and National Security Advisor to three US Presidents, is a native of Bishop Auckland, and author of There Is Nothing for you Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century. 

She testified at Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial and is currently Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Center on the US and Europe at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC.

John Tomaney

John Tomaney, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at University College, London, was born in County Durham, and one of the country’s leading thinkers on public planning and socioeconomic regeneration.

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