The Conservative Party has flung every minister, MP, candidate, activist and aristocrat it can lay its hands on into this fight.
Fiona Hodgson is the Vice-Chairman (voluntary) of the Conservative Policy Forum (CPF), a national group chaired by Oliver Letwin MP that gives its members the opportunity to discuss the major policy challenges facing Britain today. Over the coming months she and other members of the voluntary team will be writing a regular post for ConservativeHome. The last week […]
Fiona Hodgson is the Vice-Chairman (voluntary) of the Conservative Policy Forum (CPF), a national group chaired by Oliver Letwin MP that gives its members the opportunity to discuss the major policy challenges facing Britain today. Over the coming months she and other members of the voluntary team will be writing a regular post for ConservativeHome. "Join the Conversation" […]
Fiona Hodgson was President of the National Conservative Convention until last month. During the last few days the media frenzy around party funding has produced many column inches. One of the worst aspects of all this is that it has resulted in some really vicious articles with truth and accuracy being sacrificed along the way. […]
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington is Chair of Conservative Friends of International Development (CFID), Mark Simmonds is MP for Boston and Skegness (Deputy Chair of CFID) and Fiona Hodgson, former president National Convention and a Patron of CFID. Follow CFID on Twitter. We launched Conservative Friends of International Development last year at a packed event at conference. In […]
Fiona Hodgson is President of the National Conservative Convention and Chair of the Advisory Group of GAPS (Gender Action for Peace and Security) “Make sure that there is someone to listen to our voices, to bring to the international community so that no-one forgets us,” implored one of the women I met in Kabul in June. […]
Fiona Hodgson is President of the National Conservative Convention and chaired this year’s Conservative Party Conference. Now that the dust has settled on Party Conference, I want to take this opportunity to look back at Manchester 2011 and set the record straight on one or two points. In the week that has passed since […]
Fiona Hodgson is a former Chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation and is Vice President of the National Conservative Convention. Afghanistan is never out of the news and today is no exception after yesterday's conference in London. The situation there causes us all much concern. There is no doubt that our troops are doing a […]
Fiona Hodgson is a former Chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation and was elected a Vice President of the National Conservative Convention last month. She reflects here on what she discovered during a trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina earlier this month. Visiting Bosnia-Herzegovina last week with the NGO Women for Women to view their programmes for women, […]
Fiona Hodgson is President of the Conservative Women's Organisation and set up the CWO Muslim Group; Glyn Strong is a journalist who has been nominated for an award for her coverage of Afghanistan. Here they call on us not to sit back and allow women's rights to be eroded again in Aghanistan. The Personal Status […]
Fiona Hodgson, President of the Conservative Women’s Organisation, reflects on her part in the recent visit to Rwanda. There are no accurate statistics of the Rwandan genocide but it is estimated that around one million people were killed in around one hundred days. But the genocide also left many hundreds of thousands of widows and […]
Fiona Hodgson is a former President of the National Convention. She visited Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, with Oxfam. Talking to women refugees and others in Lebanon last month, it is clear that urgent help is needed now as the enormous numbers of refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria threaten to destabilize the region. We […]