The America All Party Parliamentary Group is a cross-party group consisting of members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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, whose purpose is 'to prompt friendly relations and mutual understanding between members of the United States Congress

United States Congress

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 and Members of Parliament; to arrange for the exchange of visits and information; and to provide opportunities for discussion'. It contains the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Chancellor, all Prime Ministers in the house, many party leaders and former party leaders and many Foreign Secretaries.

Officers

• Joint President: The Rt Hon Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC PC - Lord Chancellor
  Lord Chancellor
  The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...
  
  
• Joint President: The Rt Hon Michael Martin
  Michael Martin (politician)
  Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, PC is a British politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005, and then for Glasgow North East until 2009...
  
   MP - Former Speaker of The House of Commons
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Baroness Boothroyd
  Betty Boothroyd
  Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, OM, PC is a British politician, who served as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000, initially for the Labour Party and, from 1992 to 2000, as Speaker of the House of Commons...
  
   PC - Former Speaker of The House of Commons
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Carrington KG GCMG CH MC PC JP DL - Former Foreign Secretary
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith
  Iain Duncan Smith
  George Iain Duncan Smith is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was previously leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003...
  
   MP - Former Conservative Leader
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon William Hague
  William Hague
  William Jefferson Hague is the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001...
  
   MP - Former Conservative Leader
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Michael Howard
  Michael Howard
  Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, QC, PC is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005...
  
   MP - Former Conservative Leader
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon
  Geoffrey Howe
  Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, QC, PC is a former British Conservative politician. He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and finally Leader of the House of Commons...
  
   PC - Former Foreign Secretary
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell
  Douglas Hurd
  Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC , is a British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995....
  
   PC - Former Foreign Secretary
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Jopling PC - Former Chief Whip
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Charles Kennedy
  Charles Kennedy
  Charles Peter Kennedy is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who led the Liberal Democrats from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006 and is currently a Member of Parliament for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency....
  
   MP - Former Liberal Democrat
  Liberal Democrats
  The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...
  
   leader
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Mackay of ClashfernKT PC - Former Lord Chancellor
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Molyneaux of Killead
  James Molyneaux
  James Henry Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, KBE, PC is a Northern Irish Unionist politician and was leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1979 to 1995. He was a leading member and sometime Vice-President of the Conservative Monday Club...
  
   PC - Former UUP leader
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Owen
  David Owen
  David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP is a British politician.Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post; he co-authored the failed Vance-Owen and Owen-Stoltenberg peace plans offered during the Bosnian War...
  
   CH PC - Former Social Democrat Party leader
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Pym
  Francis Pym
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   PC - Former Foreign Secretary
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Jack Straw
  Jack Straw (politician)
  John Whitaker Straw is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Blackburn since 1979. He served as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons from 2006 to 2007 under Tony Blair...
  
   MP - Former Foreign Secretary
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Baroness Thatcher
  Margaret Thatcher
  Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
  
   LG OM FRS - Former Prime Minister
• Vicepresident: The Rt Hon Lord Weatherill PC DL - Former Speaker of The House of Commons
• Chair: The Rt Hon Tony Blair
  Tony Blair
  Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
  
   MP - Former Prime Minister
• Vicechair: The Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP
• Vicechair: The Rt Hon David Cameron
  David Cameron
  David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....
  
   MP - Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
   Party Leader
• Honorary Secretary: Alan Williams
  Alan Williams
  Alan John Williams is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Swansea West from 1964 to 2010.-Early life:...
  
   MP
• Honorary Treasurer: Brian Donohoe
  Brian Donohoe
  Brian Harold Donohoe is a British Labour Party politician and former trade union official, who has been the Member of Parliament for Central Ayrshire since 2005, and was first elected in 1992.-Early life:...
  
   MP
• Honorary Treasurer: Peter Viggers
  Peter Viggers
  Sir Peter John Viggers is a lawyer and former Conservative Party member of parliament for the seat of Gosport in the United Kingdom. He stepped down in 2010 as a result of the investigation of MPs' expenses.-Early life:...
  
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