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
Carlton Club Lunch Syed Kamall MEP and Roundtable speakers 29th September 2017 The CFCC Carlton Club lunch was a great success with insightful speeches from representatives from politics, business and the diplomatic world. The theme for... Reports
House of Lords Diplomatic Party 13th July 2017 The Annual Diplomatic Party hosted by The Rt Hon Lord Howell of Guildford was a great success yesterday with members and diplomatic guests engaged in animated... Reports
Diplomatic Garden Party 28th June 2017 A good number of diplomatic corps graced the CFCC Annual Garden Party this year. Sir Ronald Halstead CBE, President, spoke as did Lord Sheikh: he was brought up... Reports
High Commissioner for Canada to the UK 15th June 2017 An excellent Briefing was held at Canada House chaired by The Rt Hon the Baroness Chalker of Wallasey. The new Foreign Office/Department for International... Reports
HE Mr Dinesh K Patnaik, Deputy High Commissioner of India 22nd May 2017 H.E. Ambassador Mr. Dinesh K. Patnaik is a career diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service with experience of over 25 years in a variety of interesting and... Reports
The Rt Hon The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey 21st April 2017 Baroness Lynda Chalker spoke about African affairs: "Never dull, the African Continent will always challenge the developed World". This was a broad-ranging... Reports
CFCC New Facebook Page 19th April 2017 **NEWSFLASH** Join the conversation on foreign affairs at our new Facebook Page, see here Articles
HE Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain 20th March 2017 His Excellency gave an excellent overview of his role and challenges as well as a briefing on progress in Bahrain and as President of the Gulf Co-operation... Reports
The Hon Alexander Downer, AC, Australian High Commissioner to the UK 7th February 2017 His Excellency was introduced to all assembled in the Downer Room, Australia House, by Sir Ron Halstead CBE, President of the CFCC. The Rt Hon the Lord Howell... Reports
