Articles tagged Speech:
Greshams Lecture: What is the Conservative Party For?
- 9 Jan 2004
At Greshams School, Holt WHAT IS THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY FOR? The title of this lecture is intended to be a little provocative – what is the Conservartive Party for? And I don’t mean in the sense of – it’s for hanging, or it’s for low taxes, I mean what is its purpo...
Speech to South West Norfolk Conservatives
- 5 Nov 2003
Mr President, Mr Chairman, Gillian, Ladies & Gentlemen, this is the first time I have been allowed out of North Norfolk to make a speech since my selection only 5 weeks ago. And how prescient it was of you to invite me all those months ago when you couldn’t have known abo...
Speech to the Small Business Forum
- 29 Oct 2003
Owning and running a small business - a comparatively new small business at that - is something best done by a masochist. Why else would anyone put themselves through the torture that is part and parcel of today’s short termist business environment? It’s one hassle after anoth...
Speech at Politico's 5th Anniversary Dinner
- 5 Apr 2002
Venue: The Savoy Lady Thatcher, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, Five years ago, when the doors opened at Politico’s for the first time, I can’t have imagined that I would be here tonight, in the presence of so many who have helped make our business what it is today....
Speech: Politics in the Age of Personality
- 18 Feb 2001
• We live in an age of personality and of “the personality”. It is an age where fame is an objective not a resultant, where every facet of a personality is pored over for column inches and TV sound bites. In times past scientists could become world famous for their discoveries...
Speech on Acid Rain at the 1985 Conservative Party Conference
- 2 Oct 1985
Mr chairman, ladies and gentlemen, conference. As a representative of the party of natural party of conservation I wish to talk to you briefly about acid rain, a phenomenon which gravely threates our beautiful forests and lakes. I suspect there are some here who believe...