What, if anything, is at stake in the 2010 general election? Are there important questions currently outside the remit of electoral politics, which ought to be subject to democratic deliberation?

Claire Fox, director of the IoI, will assess how voters might once again make history, rather than merely observing it, and launch an alternative election agenda with a set of pledges the Academy of Ideas believes would be worthy of support, before a panel of political thinkers and commentators take questions from the audience.

Invited guests from a variety of campaigns will also be invited to ‘pitch’ their agenda-setting initiatives and discuss how we can use the time between now and the election to ensure a serious public debate about the questions that are obscured by the mainstream parties.