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Party conferences are outmoded - thinktank

Party conferences are outmoded - thinktank

The annual party political conferences have become so outmoded that they symbolise the disconnection between politics and civil society, according to a Westminster based policy hub.

A paper Policy Review Intelligence says they are at risk of terminal decline and even their more recently adopted role as a fringe led "festival of ideas" is collapsing. It urged parties to modernise their party conferences. 

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