Life After Blair public lecture series
Date: Thursday 3 May 2007
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Sir Stephen Wall
Chair: Maurice Fraser
Tony Blair was at ease in the European Union. He saw the EU as part of the solution to the challenges of economic reform, energy security and climate change. Gordon Brown does not like 'abroad'. Will he be tempted to play the euro sceptic card? Will the EU constitution be, for him, a text too far? Or can Brown do for UK relations with her EU partners what Nixon did for US/China relations?
Stephen Wall was head of the European Secretariat in the UK Cabinet Office and EU adviser to Tony Blair from 2000-04. He has worked as private secretary to three successive foreign secretaries, Geoffrey Howe, John Major and Douglas Hurd, and, from 1991-93 was private secretary to the then prime minister John Major, responsible for foreign policy and defence.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
The next event in the series takes place on Wednesday 9 May and is entitled 'New Labour Ten Years On'.
Podcast
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