Kwarteng IEA fringe event hints at how deeply thinktank is embedded in No 10

For an hour, the chancellor will outline his vision in a conversation with the TaxPayers’ Alliance and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Kwasi Kwarteng’s longest public appearance at the Conservative party conference will not be on the main stage, where he spoke for 20 minutes on Monday, but at a fringe event hosted by two thinktanks on Tuesday afternoon.

For an hour, the “person responsible for the UK’s economic future”, as the event bills it, will outline his vision in a conversation with the TaxPayers’ Alliance and the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). It will be longer than his 25-minute “mini-budget” speech and his “quarter of an hour – or maybe a bit longer” with party donors after the mini-budget.