Current and retired agents, and CABA's friends and supporters are welcome to join us for our Annual Lunch, with Guest of Honour The Rt Hon. (John) the Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market OBE.
John, now Lord MacGregor, entered the Cabinet on 2 September 1985 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and was made Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1987 - during the BSE crisis. He was promoted to Secretary of State for Education and Science in July 1989. In the small reshuffle following the resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe, he was made Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council just days before Margaret Thatcher's own resignation. He continued in this position from 1990 to 1992. He was made Secretary of State for Transport in 1992, remaining in the post until July 1994 when he left the cabinet. His time as Transport Secretary saw him given responsibility for the privatisation of British Rail. He was made a life peer as Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market, of Pulham Market in the County of Norfolk on 5 July 2001.
The lunch will be held in central London, following the AGMs of the Conservative Agents' Benevolent Association and the Superannuation Fund.