Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean is former Minister in the UK Government and currently is a Labour Peer in the House of Lords. Baroness Symons has held ministerial posts for both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Ministry of Defence (MOD). These posts include Minister of...
Rt. Hon. Sir John Stanley was the British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonbridge and Malling. Elected in 1974, he was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Mrs Margaret Thatcher MP, then leader of the Opposition from 1976 to 1979. In 1979 he was promoted to Minister...
The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen is a British Labour Party politician and served as 10th Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from 1999-2003. He served Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom from 1997-99 in Tony Blairs first government. He served in...
Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind KCMG QC was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1974 until 1997. In 1979, he was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, at first in the Scottish Office and then in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, promoted to Minister of State in 1983. He became...
David Julian Richards, General The Lord Richards of Herstmonceux GCB, CBE, DSO, DL (born 4 March 1952), is a retired senior British Army officer who was formerly the Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces and military strategic adviser to the British...
The Rt Hon the Lord John Reid of Cardowan is a British Labour Party politician and Chairman of Celtic Football Club. Reid served in several senior cabinet positions under Tony Blair, including as Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary of State for Health, Secretary of State for Defence and...