Stanley Baldwin,1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley,was a British statesman and Conservative politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars,serving as prime minister on three occasions,from May 1923 to January 1924,from November 1924 to June 1929,and from June 1935 to May 1937.
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 and is currently the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Algeria and Lebanon.
Edmund John Phillip Browne,Baron Browne of Madingley,is a British businessman.
Gregory William Hands is a British politician serving as Minister for London and Minister of State for Trade Policy since November 2023. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelsea and Fulham,previously Hammersmith and Fulham,since 2005. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as its Chairman from February to November 2023. Hands has served as Minister of State for Trade Policy under four prime ministers,holding the office on four occasions,and also served as Minister of State for Business,Energy and Clean Growth from 2021 to 2022.
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.
David Arthur Russell Howell,Baron Howell of Guildford,is a British Conservative Party politician,journalist,and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher,Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague,Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke,he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party,being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter,Frances,was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer,George Osborne.
Graham Charles Stuart is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been the Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness since 2005,and serves as the Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since September 2022. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exports from 2018 to 2021,and Minister of State for Europe from July to September 2022.
Derek George Henry Laud is a British banker,author,journalist,broadcaster and visiting professor. He has other wide business interests. He is the Chairman of the Foundation Board of Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge,and the first elected male Honorary Fellow in the history of the College. He also Chairs the North American Committee for Cambridge. He was Chairman of the Board of Ravenstone House Group of Schools in the UK,controlled and owned by Pacific Investments PLC. He has been an accredited journalist and has written on social,political,travel and tennis. He has covered the Wimbledon Championships for more than 15 years.
Colin Berkeley Moynihan,4th Baronet,4th Baron Moynihan,is a British Olympic silver medalist,politician,businessman and sports administrator. Lord Moynihan served as the Chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) from 2005 to 2012. A member of the Conservative Party,he was as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Lewisham East from 1983 to 1992,and was the Minister for Sport from 1987 to 1990. He became a member of the House of Lords in 1997.
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 the 2010 general election until the 2019 general election,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.
Dolar Popat,Baron Popat is a Ugandan-British 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.
Alexander James Ashburner Nix is a British businessman,the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica and a former director of the Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) Group,a behavioural research and strategic communications consultancy,leading its elections division. Cambridge Analytica and its parent SCL were involved in psychological warfare operations for the British military and involved in influencing hundreds of elections globally;Cambridge Analytica helped Leave.EU with its Brexit campaign,according to both Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica staff. The company was also engaged by the Ted Cruz and Donald Trump campaigns during the 2016 US presidential election. The company also ran Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's campaign.
