Lord Brady of Altrincham, ‘Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers’ Monday, 16 December, 2024 Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, Chairperson of the Conservative Foreign & Commonwealth Council (CFCC), hosted the CFCC’s Annual Christmas Reception at the House of Lords on Monday 9th December 2024. Dame Pauline welcomed all present with a Christmas greeting from Lady (Lynda) Chalker of Wallasey, the Council’s former President. She then introduced Lord Brady of Altrincham, who would be speaking about... Reports
‘Unmasking our Leaders - Confessions of a political documentary-maker’ with Michael Cockerell, broadcaster and journalist 14th November 2023 The Annual Dinner of the Conservative Foreign & Commonwealth Council (CFCC) took place on October 30th at Franco’s in Jermyn Street SW1 for a talk and signing... Reports
HE Mr Vikram K Doraiswami, High Commissioner of India 22nd October 2023 Report on Conservative Foreign & Commonwealth Council Lunch at Carlton Club on Monday 11th September 2023 Guest Speaker: HE Mr Vikram K Doraiswami, High... Reports
Monday 17th July, Annual Diplomatic Reception, House of Lords Terrace 17th August 2023 Terrace Reception sponsored by CFCC Patron, Rt Hon Lord Howell of Guildford Speaker: The Lord Marland, Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment... Reports
Annual Diplomatic Garden Party 9th June 2023 On a beautiful balmy sunny evening CFCC hosted over twenty Ambassadors and welcomed Rt Hon Greg Hands MP as speaker. The Summer Reception of the Conservative... Reports
‘The Other War – China’s and Russia’s deep penetration of the developing world’ with Sir John Sawers and Robert Clark 24th May 2023 A Meeting of the Conservative Foreign & Commonwealth Council (CFCC) took place on May 24th at the House of Lords. Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, as President of... Reports
The Role of the Middle East with the Rest of the World: Panel Discussion with Middle East Ambassadors 17th April 2023 Panel Discussion with Ambassadors of Bahrain, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, the Palestine Ambassador and Attache at the Embassy of Oman... Reports
‘Building bilateral Trade and Industry links’ Chaired by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne 14th March 2023 ‘Building bilateral Trade and Industry links’ Chaired by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne with Ambassadors of Turkmenistan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Azerbaijan... Reports
“Ukraine: 12 months on” Talk and Dinner with Lord Garnier KC 9th February 2023 Report of the event: On a winter’s evening at esteemed club Boodle’s in early February 2023, a host of CFCC members were joined by The Rt Hon Lord Garnier KC to... Reports
Commonwealth Poetry: Getting to know 2.5 billion people through…. Wait for it… Poetry! 25th January 2023 Chaired by Rt Hon Baroness Chalker of Wallasey FRGS, President of the CFCC With Gyles Brandreth, Aphra Brandreth and His Excellency Kevin M Isaac Getting to... Reports
