Baroness Lynda Chalker spoke about African affairs: "Never dull, the African Continent will always challenge the developed World".
This was a broad-ranging highly informative upbeat briefing about the great potential for Africa, from the founder of Africa Matters .
Lynda Chalk
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 Council.
These are exciting times for the Gulf. When the PM, Theresa May, visited the Gulf last December, it was the first visit by a fem
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 of Guildford, Patron of the CFCC, made introductory remarks highlighting the Commonwealth as 'the platform for the future' as quoted by
The Rt Hon Lord Howell of Guildford, CFCC Patron, gave an inspiring and visionary introductory speech to numerous High Commissioners and members present outlining the relevance of our Commonwealth friends in our current global context increasingly driven by the digital age and our core str
Lord Hamilton of Epsom gave a rousing speech about current political activity in the UK, EU and US.
He said 10% of the House of Lords wanted to leave but believed that Article 50 would go through and that negotiations would then begin.
On Trump his view was that he "seems to made every mistake any
Ambassador Martin EICHTINGER hosted a marvellous Briefing and Reception for members including the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Austria, Sir Peter Bottomley MP.
The Ambassador referred to the country becoming a "tremendous success story" and the 5th richest country in the EU.&nb
The Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council event “Britain’s Place in the World” took place on the 29th of September 2016 at the highly prestigious Carlton Club in London.
The Tolands' Diplomatic Garden Party. The Annual Summer Diplomatic party was organised by the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council and took place in Chelsea on 14th July. It was a hugely enjoyable evening of socialising, champagne, and canapés, with a broad theme of developing friendly and constructive diplomatic and foreign relations. In the course of the evening an elegant musical interlude was performed on the oboe by Henry Crawshay-Williams, accompanied by the most responsive music stand to date (Oliver Wright). With the theme of Brexit still fresh on everyone’s minds, a rousing speech was given by local MP Victoria Borwick encouraging communities, neighbours, and colleagues to work together to foster a general sense of inclusion. Britain leaving the EU need not bring with it division and social cleavage, therefore Victoria Borwick encouraged us to consider our actions in order to prevent this. A few words were also said by the President of the CFCC, Sir Ronald Halstead CBE. Among his current posts include council member of the European Policy Forum, President of the Engineering Industries Association and an APPG advisor for Trade & Investment. While Sir Ronald refused to directly state his opinion on Brexit, he put substantial emphasis on Britain’s need to focus on developing our trade with the rest of the world. Included among the evening’s attendees were the diplomatic corps of a significant number of countries. A great thanks and congratulations to Melissa Crawshay-Williams for organising the wonderful evening . Lucy Bracken
The Annual Summer Diplomatic party, organised by the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council, took place on June 22nd 2016 in the Cholmondeley Room of the House of Lords
