BGA Parliamentary Day Lunch 2023

Please join us for our annual Parliamentary Day Lunch on 12 June 2023. This year’s distinguished guest speaker will be The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP, the UK Foreign Secretary.

The event will be hosted by Lord Kinnoull, Chair of the Lords European Affairs Committee. Drinks will be available on the Cholmondeley Room Terrace from 12.15pm. Lunch will be served at 12.45pm in the Cholmondeley Room. The event will end at 2.30pm.

A ticket includes a three-course lunch. Drinks not included.

The Rt Hon James Cleverly was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on 6 September 2022. He was previously Secretary of State for Education from July 2022 to September 2022.

Before that, James was Minister of State for Europe and North America in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from February to July 2022. He was also Minister for Middle East, North Africa and North America from September 2020 to February 2022. James was first appointed as a joint Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development on 13 February 2020.

James was Minister without Portfolio from July 2019 to February 2020, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union from April 2019 to July 2019. He was first elected as the Conservative MP for Braintree in May 2015.