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The Bow Group is pleased to announce is 60th annual Christmas reception, with the Rt. Hon. John Redwood MP as keynote speaker. The reception will take place at the St. Stephen's Club, 34 Queen Anne's Gate at 630 pm on Thursday the 15th December 2011. Mulled wine, mince pies & refreshments will be served to guests.

The event will takeplace in the House of Commons on the 23rd November at 7pm, Committee Room 5.

In June 2011, then Economic Secretary to the Treasury Justine Greening told the Bow Group that "The government''s priority, in this year and every remaining year of this Parliament, is straightforward – to provide the necessary conditions to support the UK’s long-term economic potential and help to create new jobs."

While still in its relative infancy, the Coalition Government has some notable achievements, but ultimately it will be judged on the ability to facilitate growth in the UK economy, and in this area it has not achieved.

The new Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney wrote on Conservative Home shortly after the election of his team to set out the importance of reform in the group, and the value the group can, and must have, in the Conservative family. Must the home of free-market conservative thought disappear into the ether?

Benjamin Harris-Quinney is the new Chairman of the Bow Group. Previously he was Political Officer and Chairman of the Foreign Policy & Security Committee. A week after Lady Thatcher’s 86th birthday, one of the institutions that formed a pillar of the philosophy of her government, and of many before it, faces a crisis of existence.

The Bow Group is sixty years old this year, and rather than a celebration of its great history, the institution is battling is on the precipice of its own demise. Why?

The Bow Group were delighted to welcome back Secretary of State for Culture Media & Sport Jeremy Hunt, to deliver the keynote speech at our annual summer terrace reception at the House of Commons. 

The event could not have occured at a more febrile time of Parliamentary intrigue, on what was to be the final day of the term. Following the day's committee hearings the timing of Jeremy Hunt's appearance was welcomed by members keen to ask questions of their own on the topic of telephone hacking, media plurality, BBC funding and the Olympics.

The Bow Group's Political Officer Ben Harris-Quinney commented that "Jeremy Hunt is most welcome back at the Bow Group, particularly if his timing is always as good as today. I think many of our members are both concerned and fascinated by the nature of events that have sent shock waves through the nations media and government. Jeremy has acted as always with the utmost composure and professionalism, and I can think of no one better to give the Bow Group fair and frank opinion on unfolding events."