We will be hosting Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP, in conversation with Lucy Fisher, Whitehall Editor at the Financial Times and our Deputy Director-General, Professor Malcolm Chalmers.
Event details
Time: 08:30-09:30
Date: 2 October 2023
Location: Stanley Suite, Midland Hotel, Manchester
This session is open to anyone attending the Conservative Party Conference.
Secretary of State for Defence, Grant Shapps and Professor Malcolm Chalmers of the Royal United Services Institute will be in conversation with the Financial Times' Whitehall correspondent Lucy Fisher.
The event will provide an opportunity for the new Secretary of State to set out his thinking on the challenges facing the Ministry of Defence right now, as well as to look at significant recent events – especially in Ukraine – and ask where next for the UK's defence policy.