Called Faith Freedom and Politics: Christians in Public Life, the event will bring together a coalition of many of the biggest Christian organisations in the country, with representatives of all the main traditions, to sign up to a Declaration of Christian Conscience. This will be, it is hoped, a metaphorical public planting of the Christian standard which can in future be used as a yardstick to measure where our politicians stand on moral issues. In a year which has seen doctrinaire progressives back legislation extending abortion rights and allowing for assisted suicide, it is a first step in a battle to turn the tide. The ambition is nothing less than to change the tenor of our politics altogether; to bring Christians into the political equation so that they matter in the way they do across the Atlantic.