Following our Honorary Chairman’s letter a few days ago, we also have a number of other highlights to point out.
First of all we would like to personally thank those of you who took the time to join us last Wednesday, it was a wonderful opportunity to get to meet a lot of new faces and also some familiar ones. The overwhelming support we have received has been very encouraging and we hope to build on this momentum and organize a number of events in the near future. For those of you that were unable to join us we do hope that you will be able to make it to our next events.
Having discussed with a number of you the need to get senior political figures to visit us in the Gulf and also the feeling of under representation that has been prevalent in the past we are pleased to let you know that results have already been achieved. This weekend, along with the BBBF leaders, we were able to meet a number of politicians who have explicitly expressed their support for our development as a group. Rt Hon William Hague, Shadow Foreign Secretary, and Dr Liam Fox, Shadow Secretary of State for Defense, met with us on Saturday morning at the Ritz Carlton where we were able to discuss with them the great opportunities that lay in the Gulf with the expat community and the need for greater representation. Both expressed their personal support for Gulf Tories and acknowledged the importance of renewing ties that have been allowed to lie fallow under the Labour government.
Additionally, William Hague said “I am delighted that British Conservatives in Bahrain has been established, they are further helping to strengthen the vital political and business ties between Britain and Bahrain which will be an important policy of an incoming Conservative Government”
Dr Liam Fox added, “This wonderful organisation enables British subjects to maintain their political interest in home and emphasises the importance to Britain of one of our closes friends in the Gulf”
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