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Details: The British Conservative Association of Luxembourg asbl have announced that they are holding a Dinner on Friday 14 November at 19:30 at the Cercle Munster in Luxembourg-Grund, with Guest of Honour Richard Ashworth MEP, who will address the topic "Where now for the EU: A British Perspective".
Biography: Richard Ashworth was first elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the South East of England in June 2004 and was re-elected in June 2009 and June 2014. He sits in a 19 strong Conservative delegation in Brussels which is part of the European Conservative and Reformist Group with 71 MEPs and the third largest group in the European Parliament.
Richard is the Conservative spokesman on both the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development as well as a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Richard is a former Chief Whip and deputy leader for the UK Conservatives in the European Parliament.
Richard worked extensively in Canada and New Zealand before establishing a farming business in Sussex. He developed his own business processing and retailing dairy products, and subsequently became a founder director and was for some years the chairman of United Milk Plc.
He has been the chairman of NFU Corporate, the organisation that represents Britain’s farmer controlled agri-business and co-operatives in London and Brussels. He has also been a member of the Minister of Agriculture’s food chain advisory committee.
Richard was a candidate in the 1997 General Election (North Devon constituency) and also the 1999 European election (South East region). Richard has been a Conservative Association chairman and has also served on the Sussex county executive.
Richard was born in 1947 in Folkestone, Kent and is married with three daughters. He was educated at The King’s School, Canterbury and studied agriculture and management at Seale-Hayne College in Devon.
Richard has had a lifelong interest in further education and training. He has been the chairman of a further education college for a number of years as well as serving on several public bodies in the education sector. His interests include music, theatre, sport, aviation and country pursuits.
Venue: Cercle Munster, Luxembourg-Grund
Organiser: British Conservative Association of Luxembourg asbl
Price: €50 (includes apéritifs, dinner, wine and coffee);
Reservations: Registrations by 12 November to David Clark (email: dclark@pt.lu or sms: 621-259399). Payment can be made to the BCAL bank account (BCEE - IBAN LU69 0019 3255 0792 4000) with reference “Ashworth dinner”, or by cash at the door. A no-show policy will be applied.
URL: For further details, see www.conservativesluxembourg.org.
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