13 November 2024: Fabian Hamilton MP elected Chair following the nationwide General Elections on 4 July 2024, becoming the first Chair from Labour Party in 14 years reflecting the change of government in the United Kingdom. Mr Hamilton brings more than 24 years of parliamentary experience and significant foreign policy…
1 May 2024: Director, Rick Nimmo marks 12 years leading the BGIPU Secretariat, becoming the second longest serving chief executive of the organisation after its founder, Sir William Randal Cremer MP who was honorary secretary for 19 years.
30 December 2023: BGIPU Chair, Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP was honoured with a Damehood for public and political service by HM King Charles III.
27 October 2023: Dr Tulia Ackson of the United Republic of Tanzania was elected to be the 31st President of the IPU by the IPU Governing Council, its main decision-making body made up of parliamentarians from around the world. Dr Ackson will be the first female IPU President from the…
8 September 2022: President Pacheco and Secretary General Chungong offer on behalf of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and its wider membership, their deepest condolences to the British Royal Family, the Government and the people of the United Kingdom, and the Commonwealth of Nations on the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth…
1 February 2022: After more than two years of disruption, BGIPU hosted a delegation of three parliamentarians from France being the first inward delegation hosted at UK Parliament since the start of the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020. It was significant that the first visit was undertaken by our…
26 November 2021: After more than a two year gap, the IPU hosted the 143rd IPU Assembly in Madrid with hundreds of MPs from 117 countries, including 44 Speakers of Parliament, attending the first in-person IPU Assembly since 2019 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. During the course of the…
9 September 2021: The Fifth World Conference of Speakers convenes in Vienna hosted by the Parliament of Austria becoming the first major in-person international parliamentary meeting in over 18 months with Deputy Speaker, Dame Eleanor Laing MP representing the UK Parliament with the support of BGIPU.
27 May 2021: The IPU Hosts its 142nd Assembly in virtual format with international travel continuing to be suspended due to the global pandemic. It was attended online by more than 1000 participants from 135 countries.
2 December 2020: The first ever virtual Annual General Meeting of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union was chaired by Deputy Speaker, Nigel Evans MP, on behalf of the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, with Harriett Baldwin MP re-elected as Chair.
