The YBF Activist Training Conference

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The 8th YBF Activist Training Conference, known as YBF8, took place at St Anne’s College, Oxford from lunchtime on Friday, 9 December 2011 until lunchtime on Sunday, 11 December 2011.

Each year’s conference improves on the last and in 2011 we had our best line-up of speakers yet at the leading conference for young conservatives of its kind in the United Kingdom.

As former Conservative Party Chairman Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP said in response to one journalist’s obsession as to whether or not he was attending YBF8:

“Apparently someone I’ve never heard of in a paper I don’t read says I shouldn’t be here! Well, I’m delighted to be associated with the Young Britons’ Foundation and for you to have a strong voice with young people”. 

Among the 33 speakers were:

  • Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government
  • Gerald Howarth MP, Defence Minister
  • Nigel Evans MP, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
  • Conor Burns MP, PPS to the Northern Ireland Minister
  • Steve Baker MP, Wycombe
  • Daniel Hannan MEP, President of the Young Britons’ Foundation
  • Lord Flight
  • James Cleverly AM, London Assembly Conservative Group Leader
  • Matthew Elliott, Head of the NO2AV Campaign & Founder, TaxPayers’ Alliance
  • Shane Greer, Publisher of Campaigns & Elections
  • Simon Richards, Freedom Association
  • Mark Allatt, Conservative Way Forward
  • Daniel Hamilton, Bell Pottinger (formerly of Big Brother Watch)
  • Jonathan Isaby, TaxPayers’ Alliance (formerly of ConservativeHome)
  • John Shosky, Reagan & Bush Administration Speechwriter
  • Alex Singleton, Daily Telegraph
  • Toby Baxendale, Cobden Centre
  • Eamonn Butler, Adam Smith Institute
  • Raheem Kassam, Student Rights
  • Lauren McEvatt, Political Researcher
  • Haley Hester, Texas Right to Life
  • Emma Carr, Institute of Economic Affairs
  • Stephanie Lis, Freedom Association
  • Tim Evans, Cobden Centre
  • Alex Deane, Bell Pottinger (formerly Big Brother Watch)
  • Mark Wallace, TaxPayers’ Alliance
  • Peter Botting, Political Consultant
  • Greg Smith, Political Consultant

Why should you attend YBF9?

  • Hear from leading figures in the conservative movement
  • Learn about conservative ideas
  • Learn how to debate, speak in public, handle the media, campaign and fundraise effectively
  • Meet and network with like-minded activists from both sides of the Atlantic
  • Receive valuable resource materials

For further information about YBF9, contact YBF Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk. 

NB: RIGHT OF ADMISSION RESERVED. 

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