This year the FPC held nine fringes at Labour party conference topics ranging from religion in policy to UN reform. Speakers included Peter Mandelson, Charles Clarke MP, Hilary Benn MP, Sir Stephen Wall and Mikhail Kasyanov, among many others.

On Sunday 25th, the FPC held its Annual 'Global Fringe' event, a regular feature where the topic for debate is selected only one week before the event. This year the debate was on the wider Middle East, and attracted a lively debate between panellists including Lord Garden, the Lib Dem Defence Spokesperson, Nick Cohen of the New Statesman, Dame Pauline-Neville Jones and Ned Temko of the Observer.

On Monday, there were debates with Peter Mandelson and Ian Pearson on trade; Denis MacShane on the Middle East; and Charles Clarke on immigration.

At a Tuesday breakfast briefing, Stephen Timms, Stephen Wall, Rev Nazir Ali, AC Grayling and Rokhsana Fiaz discussed whether faith was the new identity. In the evening, Douglas Alexander spoke at a meeting on 'A New Deal for Social Europe', with the FPC's pamphlet being launched the next day.

Wednesday rounded up the FPC's busy programme with events on Energy Security with Malcolm Wicks and Michael Meacher, Africa with Hilary Benn and Russia with former RUssian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

The FPC wishes to thank all its speakers and sponsors for their help at this year's conference.

Cook's final fight: the case for Europe.

Download The FPC Fringe Programme Labour Party Autumn Conference 2005 (90 kilobyte PDF; need help viewing PDFs?)