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This weekend 100 speakers and 1500 delegates from 72 countries will be convening a London

for perhaps the largest centre-right conference of its kind in recent years. The so-called Alliance

for Responsible Citizenship is the latest kid on the Conservative block, but is it really conservative

and what's the purpose for a party who doesn't seem very interested in ideas? I'm Fraser Nelson

and I'm joined to discuss this by Philippa Stroud, who's put the conference together and by David Frost

who's going to be speaking at it. So, Philippa, Baroness Stroud, can you tell us a little bit about

this conference? What's the idea behind it? Hi Fraser and thank you. Yes, so a few months ago,

some of us gathered in the library and just started talking about the direction of travel

that particularly many of our Anglo-Sphere nations were going in, but also many nations around the

world. And with a significant concern that the story that we are telling ourselves is one of decline,

permacrisis, polycrisis. And because our stories really form our identities and then our identities

impact on our actions, what we're finding is, in fact, we're setting ourselves a pathway

of decline. And so this group of people have come together, as you say, 100 different speakers,

72 different nations, in order to really ask ourselves a question, is there a better story?

And we are convinced there is a better story than the one we're currently telling ourselves,

but we're wanting to ask, is there a better story? And if there is, what is it?

And the names you've got coming, then Jordan Peterson, you're in Lomburg,

just into a price who I wrote about recently, he's fresh from winning Australia's

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