Charles Hendry is a British Conservative Party politician. Formerly the member of parliament for High Peak between the 1992 and 1997 general elections,he was returned as the MP for Wealden in 2001. In May 2010 he was appointed Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change and served until 2012. He stood down at the 2015 general election.
Richard John Grenville Spring,Baron Risby is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury St Edmunds from 1992 to 1997,and for West Suffolk from 1997 to 2010. He joined the House of Lords in 2010.
Robert Norman William Blake,Baron Blake,,was an English historian and peer. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli,and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill,which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures.
Oliver Lyttelton,1st Viscount Chandos,was a British businessman from the Lyttelton family who was brought into government during the Second World War,holding a number of ministerial posts.
Robert Haldane Smith,Baron Smith of Kelvin,is a British businessman and former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Smith was knighted in 1999,appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer in 2008,and appointed Knight of the Thistle in the 2014 New Year Honours. He was also appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2016.
Graham Charles Stuart is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness since 2005. He previously served in various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Theresa May,Boris Johnson,Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak between 2018 and 2024.
Winston Churchill formed the third Churchill ministry in the United Kingdom following the 1951 general election. He was reappointed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George VI and oversaw the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 and her coronation.
The Conservative government of the United Kingdom that began in 1957 and ended in 1964 consisted of three ministries:the first Macmillan ministry,second Macmillan ministry,and then the Douglas-Home ministry. They were respectively led by Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home,who were appointed by Queen Elizabeth II.
Edward Heath of the Conservative Party formed the Heath ministry and was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II on 19 June 1970,following the 18 June general election. Heath's ministry ended after the February 1974 general election,which produced a hung parliament,leading to the formation of a minority government by Harold Wilson of the Labour Party.
Stephen Keith Green,Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint,is a British politician,former Conservative Minister of State for Trade and Investment,former group chairman of HSBC Holdings plc,and Anglican priest.
Evan Mervyn Davies,Baron Davies of Abersoch,is a British former banker and was a Labour government minister until May 2010,as Minister of State for Trade,Investment and Small Business. Davies remains a UK government Trade Envoy for Sri Lanka.
Strong foreign relations exist between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom. The Embassy of United Kingdom in Baku opened in 1992. The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in London opened in 1994. Both countries are members of the Council of Europe,the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Richard Irwin Harrington,Baron Harrington of Watford is a British politician and businessman. From 2010 until 2019,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Watford. He was the Minister for Business and Industry from June 2017 to March 2019. Harrington had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019,but on 29 October he was one of ten MPs to have it restored.
Guy Vaughan Black,Baron Black of Brentwood is Deputy Chairman of the Telegraph Media Group.
Dolar Amarshi Popat,Baron Popat is a Ugandan-British politician,accountant,businessman and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
Zameer Mohammed Choudrey,Baron Choudrey is a British-Pakistani businessman who is the chief executive of the multinational conglomerate Bestway.
A Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy is a position in British foreign policy,within the Department for International Trade since 2016,and formerly with the UK Trade &Investment government department from 2003 to 2016.
SCL Group was a private British behavioural research and strategic communication company that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving its subsidiaries Cambridge Analytica and Crow Business Solutions MENA. It was founded in 1990 by Nigel Oakes,who served as its CEO. The company described itself as a "global election management agency". The company's leaders and owners had close ties to the Conservative Party,the British royal family,British military,United States Department of Defense and NATO and its investors included some of the largest donors to the Conservative Party.
The secretary of state for business and trade (business secretary),is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom,with responsibility for the Department for Business and Trade. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
