Conservative Friends of the Commonwealth

Miriam Grossman, M.D. is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. She has appears in the Daily Wire's documentary What Is a Woman? and is the author of several books, including Unprotected, You're Teaching My Child What?, and Lost in Trans Nation. Read more about her work:- https://www.miriamgrossmanmd.com Twitter:- @Miriam_Grossman Order her latest book now:- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Trans-Nation-Psychiatrists-Madness/dp/1510777741/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=miriam+grossman+m.d&qid=1690157931&sprefix=miram+gro%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-2

Dr Rakib Ehsan is a research analyst and writer, specialising in matters of social cohesion, race relations, and public security. He is the author of the forthcoming book Beyond Grievance, which is now available on Amazon. He holds a BA in Politics & International Relations (First-Class Honours), MSc in Democracy, Politics and Governance (Pass with Distinction), and a PhD in Political Science, all obtained from Royal Holloway, University of London. His PhD thesis, which was comprehensively sponsored by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), investigated the impact of social integration on the public attitudes of British non-white ethnic minorities. Previously being a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) and a senior data analyst at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), Rakib has also produced work for think-tanks such as Policy Exchange, Runnymede Trust and Intergenerational Foundation, as well as the Canadian independent security think-tank, the Mackenzie Institute. Currently a columnist at Sp!ked and a regular contributor for Mail Plus and The Telegraph, he has also written for The Independent, The Jewish Chronicle, UnHerd, The Times Red Box, and CapX. His comments have also featured in mainstream British newspapers such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, as well as foreign platforms such as Arab News in Saudi Arabia and The National in the UAE. A regular guest on GB News and TalkTV, Rakib has also featured on Sky News, BBC Newsnight, BBC Sunday Morning Live and ITV's Good Morning Britain (GMB). He has also made radio appearances for stations such as LBC, Times Radio, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio London, and BBC Asian Network. Establishing himself as a prominent British authority on matters of racial identity and social integration, Rakib has consulted influential UK parliamentarians and policymakers on issues surrounding race relations and community cohesion. He is currently a Patron of the Muslims Against Anti-Semitism (MAAS), and has also presented evidence to The White House Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force (HETF).

Claire Chandler is an Australian politician who was elected as a Senator for Tasmania at the 2019 Australian federal election. She is a member of the Liberal Party.

James Spencer Cleverly is a British politician and Army Reserve officer who has served as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Braintree in Essex since 2015. He previously served as Secretary of State for Education from July to September 2022, Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party alongside Ben Elliot from 2019 to 2020 and as the member of the London Assembly (AM) for Bexley and Bromley from 2008 to 2016. In September 2022 he was appointed Foreign Secretary by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss, making him the first Foreign Secretary of African heritage in British history.

Simon John Birmingham (born 14 June 1974) is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2007. A member of the Liberal Party, he served in the Morrison Government as Minister for Finance from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Minister for Education and Training in the Turnbull government from 2015 to 2018, and as a parliamentary secretary and assistant minister in the Abbott government.

Tony Clement is a Canadian former federal politician and former Member of Parliament for Parry Sound—Muskoka in Ontario. Before entering federal politics, Clement served as an Ontario cabinet minister, including as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care under premiers Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. Moving to federal politics, he was a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada after its formation from the merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties in 2003. He lost to Stephen Harper. Clement won the seat of Parry Sound—Muskoka in the 2006 federal election, defeating incumbent Liberal cabinet minister Andy Mitchell. The Conservatives formed government in that election and Clement was appointed Minister of Health and Minister for FedNor. He also later served as President of the Treasury Board. Clement was re-elected despite the Conservative defeat in the 2015 election.

Lee Anderson is a British Conservative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield, Nottinghamshire since 2019.

Robert S. Spalding III is a retired United States Air Force brigadier general. He currently serves as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His work focuses on U.S.–China relations, economic and national security, and the Asia-Pacific military balance. From December 2016 to May 2017, he was U.S. Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché to China, Beijing and from May 2017 to January 2018, Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council, White House, Washington D.C

Michael Chertoff is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security to serve under President George W. Bush. Chertoff also served for one additional day under President Barack Obama. He was the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. Chertoff previously served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005.

Simon David O'Connor MP is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the National Party. He has represented the Tāmaki electorate since 2011. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade committee.

Peter Barnes is a political consultant & strategist. Twitter - @Barnesy19 Instagram - @barnesy123

We at CFOC pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II with political consultant & strategist, Peter Barnes Twitter - @Barnesy19 Instagram - @barnesy123

Natasha Asghar is a Welsh Conservative Party politician who represents South Wales East in the Senedd since the 2021 Senedd election. She is the first female ethnic minority member of the Senedd and was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021.

China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through China's new playbook. Many people are finally waking up to the alarming reality of China's stealth war on the United States and puzzling over how to push back against its insidious infiltration. What few realize is that we have one real advantage in this war: the Chinese Communist Party strategy for total war has been written out in Unrestricted Warfare, the Chinese book, well known there, that has become their new Art of War. In War Without Rules, retired Air Force Brigadier General Rob Spalding takes Americans inside Unrestricted Warfare. He walks readers through the principles of this book, revealing the Chinese belief that there is no sector of life outside the realm of war. Purchase his book here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Without-Rules-Playbook-Domination/dp/0593331044/ref=sr_1_1?crid=123W1X3N7TWUK&keywords=war+without+rules&qid=1657638649&sprefix=war+witout+rules%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1

David L. Heymann (born 1946) is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and public health expert, based in London. He is currently Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For 22 years Heymann was based at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on secondment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during which time he rose from Chief of Research of the Global Programme on AIDS to Founding Director of the Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases. Before joining WHO Heymann was based for 13 years in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from CDC where he worked Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, DRC and Malawi. During this period he participated in the response to the first, second and third outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in DRC. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for service to global public health.

Luke Evans is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosworth in Leicestershire.

Charlotte is a Deputy Chair of Saffron Walden Conservative Association & Media Consultant. Twitter - @SalomonSoup Instagram - @salomonsoup

Peter Barnes is a political consultant & strategist. Twitter - @Barnesy19 Instagram - @barnesy123

Timothy Robert Wilson is an Australian politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. Wilson serves as the Federal Member for Goldstein in the Australian House of Representatives. He is currently the Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. We discuss Australian politics, China, Covid, Commonwealth & much more!

Russia / China / Infrastructure / Ratings / Democrats & More! Our guests include Michael Chertoff who was the United States Secretary of Homeland Security to serve under President George W. Bush, General Robert Spalding who was Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the White House & Robert Zoellick who was the 11th president of the World Bank

CFOC is delighted to welcome Michael McCormack who at the time of the episode was the Australian Deputy Prime Minister

We have a world exclusive event with New Zealand's Simon Bridges MP & UK's Ranil Jayawardena MP discussing the UK/NZ relationship. We are honoured to have National Party's Simon Bridges who has served as Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2018 and 2020, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tauranga since the 2008 election. Also on our panel we have Conservative Party's Ranil Jayawardena who was appointed Minister for International Trade in May 2020. He was elected as the Conservative MP for North East Hampshire in 2015. This exclusive event discusses the future relationship between New Zealand and the UK. We also chat about the newly agreed free trade deal as well as the potential the two countries have.

Deputy Prime minister of Australia for six years between 1999 and 2005, he was responsible for many fantastic achievements. Highlights include restoring Australia's AAA credit rating and being the first post-second world war administration to create a surplus of tax revenue. He also has his very own famous YouTube channel boasting some of the biggest world names. In this episode we discuss Democracy, Lockdowns, Cancel Culture and much more.

Sunil, Phoebe & Noah breakdown the latest budget, offering their thoughts & opinion

We launch New Zealand National Party MP Simon Bridges' new book which is an open, honest and at times intensely personal memoir about race, fatherhood, marriage, masculinity, fitting in, and the things that shape our national character.

Another episode of Commonwealth Matters where we review Freedom Day and what could happen in the future + the new relationship with government post Covid Twitter :- @CFOC2020 Instagram :- @officialcfoc

Commonwealth Matters Team discuss EU law on companies having the Right to ban Muslim Employees from wearing headscarves in some contexts. The balance between religious freedom, individual freedoms and security. Twitter :- @CFOC2020 Instagram :- @officialcfoc

Another Commonwealth Matters Episode with the CFOC team of Sunil, Noah & Phoebe discussing Nationalism, Globalism and Patriotism. Twitter :- @CFOC2020 Instagram :- @officialcfoc

Jeffrey Archer has sold over 320 million copies worldwide. Jeffrey was a Conservative MP and has been the deputy chairman of the party. We discuss in detail his writing and political career as well as some of his thoughts on the current state of democracy. Twitter - @cfoc Instagram - @officialcfoc

Sir Charles Walker in the past year has become one of the most talked about politicians in the UK. Our event with Sir Charles was an exclusive, where he discussed lock-downs, Covid-19 as well as his issues with Sage and behavioural psychologists.

CFOC's very own special advisor Andy Pilley discusses the European Super League, EFL, Independent Regulator and much more. Twitter :- @CFOC Instagram :- @officialcfoc

A special Conservative Friends of the Commonwealth event , we have with us the home secretary Priti Patel , who has served as Secretary of State for International Development from 2016 to 2017. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Witham since 2010 and is our current Home Seceratary. Priti Patel talks far left, racism, identity politics, political correctness & much more. Twitter - @cfoc Instagram - @officialcfoc

CFOC team of Sunil, Phoebe & Noah discuss some of the most significant events that have occurred in the past few weeks.

CFOC's Eddie & Noah discuss the importane of the Commonwealth with Lord Popat. He became a Member of the House of Lords in July 2010 and is the first Gujarati to represent the Conservative Party in the upper house. From January 2013 to March 2015 he served as a Minister of the Crown at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, and the Department for Transport. He was Lord-in-Waiting, with the duties of a party whip. He was subsequently appointed as the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Rwanda and Uganda in January 2016.

We host an event with Canadian Member of Parliament for Edmonton-Wetaskiwin, Mike Lake MP. Political discourse, autism, conservatism and much more is discussed! Subscribe to our channel. Twitter :- @CFOC2020 Instagram :- @officialcfoc

Another joint collaboration with our good friends at Bharatvaarta, we have veteran journalist Anil Padmanabhan with us discussing the 2nd wave in India.

Recently banned from China, we had the fantastic Tom Tugendhat, MP for Tonbridge and Malling, and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. A regular voice for human rights, our discussion will cover a some fascinating topics including India, China, racism and much more.

We continue our 100 Days of Joe Biden series with General Robert Spalding is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. His work focuses on U.S.-China relations, economic and national security, and the Asia-Pacific military balance. Spalding has served in senior positions of strategy and diplomacy within the Defense and State Departments for more than 26 years, and is an accomplished innovator in government and a national security policy strategist. As Senior Director for Strategy to the President, he was the chief architect of the framework for national competition in the Trump administration's National Security Strategy (NSS). We discuss Robert's groundbreaking book Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept. He demonstrates how China has waged a six-front war on America's economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure - and they're winning. In the book he reveal China's motives and secret attacks on the West. His concern isn't merely that America could lose its position on the world stage but more urgently, that the Chinese Communist Party has a fundamental loathing of the legal protections America grants its people and seeks to create a world without those rights.

We continue with our 100 Days of Joe Biden series with Michael Chertoff who is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security to serve under President George W. Bush. He was the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. Chertoff previously served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005.

As part of our 100 Days of Joe Biden series, we have with us Robert Zoellick who was the United States Deputy Secretary of State and U.S. Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005. He also was the eleventh World Bank President. Robert discusses the first 100 days of Joe Biden's presidency.

The CFOC team of Sunil, Noah & Phoebe discuss Joe Biden's first 100 days. Approval ratings, Afghanistan, Vaccinations, Immigration, Executive Orders are just so much of the topics covered.

We host a fantastic event with Liz Smith is a Scottish politician who has been Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Scotland and Fife since 2007. A member of the Scottish Conservative Party, she has served as Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform since 2020. With the Scottish elections pending, Noah asks a number of interesting questions to Liz.

We are joined by our patron and New Zealand National Party MP, Simon Bridges who discusses everything from woke-ism, policing, Prince Philip and much more.

Robert 'Bob' Blackman is a Conservative Party MP from the United Kingdom, who has served as the Member of Parliament from Harrow East since 2010. He has also served as the Executive Secretary of the 1922 Committee since 2012. Bob is a great friend of India, representing a constituency, where a third of his voters are of Indian origin. He has made great attempts to integrate and assimilate his constituents of the Indian origin in the business, social and political mainstream over the years. In the Labour dominated politics of the London area, he is one of the few Conservative MPs who win consistently with his strong local connect. Bob understands the UK - India relations very well. He has been advocating a trade deal between the two countries. He tweeted the myths being spread on the recent Indian farm reforms and appealed to his fellow British MPs to not fall to the propaganda being spread about these laws. Bob had met PM Narendra Modi one on one during his last UK visit. Bob was awarded the Padma Shri for exemplary public service in 2020. In this wide ranging conversation, we discussed India-UK relations and what the future holds.

The CFOC team of Sunil, Phoebe & Noah discuss managing the threat of China.

Ranil Jayawardena is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Hampshire since May 2015 and the Minister for International Trade since May 2020. In this podcast we have an engaging, detailed chat on trade as well as covering social media.

CFOC are joined by two members from BCA who discuss a variety of subjects centred on the environment.

We have an engaging conversation with New Zealand National MP Simon O'Connor on trade & the National Party's future. Simon David O'Connor MP (born 25 February 1976) is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the National Party and is spokesperson for customs, and associate spokesperson for housing (social) and social development. He is also Chair of the Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade committee.

Sunil & Noah chat with international climate activist Aliza Ayaz. She has been appointed as the United Nations youth ambassador for Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG13).

A fantastic event with leading columnist, Anand Ranganathan and our good friends at Bharatvaarta. We discuss in detail the farm reforms, offering a unique perspective. Anand Ranganathan is a professor, scientist, author, and also, among the most popular television commentators, renowned for his articulate and forthright views on social and political matters. This podcast is available on YouTube, Apple, Google, Spotify and other popular platforms.

A wide-range chat with the former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. We discuss his 11 years as Prime Minister as well as his current topics such as CANZUK, Identity Politics and much more. John Howard, served as Australia's Prime Minister between March 1996 and November 2007. He is the nation's second longest serving Prime Minister, was a Member of Parliament for 33 years, and was Treasurer in an earlier government.