Dan Carden, UK Member of Parliament for Liverpool, Walton and BGIPU’s Treasurer, has been elected as the new President of the Board of the Forum of Young Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on Sunday 12 March in Manama, Bahrain at the IPU’s 146th Assembly. The Forum of Young Parliamentarians is a permanent body of IPU […]
On 24 and 25 January, recently elected BGIPU Chair, Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP accompanied by Vice-Chair Alex Sobel MP , Vice-Chair Rt Hon Vicky Ford MP and Treasurer Dan Carden MP visited Switzerland to meet the Inter-Parliamentary Union Secretary General, Martin Chungong and senior staff of the IPU Secretariat at the House of Parliaments […]
The Annual General Meeting of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union was convened on Wednesday 30 November in the IPU Room at the Palace of Westminster to adopt the 2022 Annual Report and elect the Executive Committee for 2022/23. The AGM was presided over by the Speaker of the House of Commons, The Rt […]
During tributes to the late HM Queen Elizabeth II in the House of Commons on 10 September 2022, the BGIPU Chair Harriett Baldwin MP highlighted the vital global role played by Her Majesty in encouraging peace and understanding in the world including inter-parliamentary dialogue noting that she opened three IPU Conferences convened in London in […]
The 144th IPU Assembly, meeting in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, has condemned “the ongoing Russian use of force against Ukraine as a violation of the Charter of the United Nations, including the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity.” This is according to a resolution on an emergency item placed on the agenda of the Assembly for the […]
Meeting on 21 October 2021 in its first physical gathering in the IPU Room for 19 months, the BGIPU Executive Committee, chaired by Harriett Baldwin MP, paused for a minute’s silence to remember the significant contribution of their colleague Sir David Amess MP who was tragically killed in a terrorist attack on 15 October. The […]
On Wednesday 15 September, to mark UN International Day of Democracy, BGIPU hosted its first in-person event after eighteen months of reduced parliamentary activity. BGIPU invited a panel of experts on democracy, including Franklin De Vrieze, Senior Governance Advisor at Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Sarah Birch, Professor of Political Science at King’s College London and […]
The Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG), Dame Diana Johnson MP, wrote on 21 April 2021 to the Secretary General of the IPU, Martin Chungong, to express continued support and appreciation for the work of the IPU’s Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians and to reiterate the enduring commitment of […]
BGIPU is very pleased to confirm that Alex Sobel MP has been selected by its Executive Committee as its COP26 Rapporteur. Given the joint UK-Italy presidency, he will work closely with the IPU President, Duarte Pacheco, the IPU Secretariat and the Italian Parliament-appointed Rapporteur Alessia Rotta, Chair of the Environment, Territory and Public Works Standing […]
With UK Parliamentary travel suspended since March 2020 and all IPU meetings cancelled or being held virtually online, the COVID-19 global pandemic represents the most serious disruption to the work of BGIPU since the two World Wars of the 20th century. Over the last year, as the global pandemic spread to an estimated 120 million […]
