Speeches archive
Including speeches from George W Bush, Iain Duncan Smith, William Hague and Oliver Letwin


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Conservatives: the party for the vulnerable
The Conservative leader focuses on vulnerable communities like Easterhouse in a landmark speech to the Conservative Spring Forum

The Reality of Poverty - an address by David Willetts MP
David Willetts MP launches the One Nation Hearings

President George W Bush proclaims a 'National Sanctity of Human Life Day'
The US President links pro-life concerns with a social justice agenda

The five big questions about faith and our world after 11th September
Barry Seagren asks if Christians will still dare to be 'fundamentalists'.....

Brian Griffiths, William Hague and Peter Lilley on William Wilberforce
Extracts from past Wilberforce Addresses

'Beyond the Causes of Crime' by Oliver Letwin MP
A landmark speech on Conservatism by the Shadow Home Secretary

Conservatism and Christianity: the Fourth Wilberforce Address
A magnificent defence of Christian Conservatism delivered on the CCF's tenth anniversary

William Hague addresses a landmark Conservative faith communities conference
The former Conservative leader applauds the contribution of Britain's faith traditions to family and community life

Ethical boundaries and the medical revolution
The Shadow Health Secretary talks to a CCF conference

William Hague addresses the African and Caribbean Evangelical Alliance: July 2000
'What would Wilberforce devote his energies to if he were alive today?' asks the former Conservative leader

Dr Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, calls for faith communities to renew civil society
An address given to a conference on faith-inspired social action jointly organised by CCF

William Hague becomes the first party political leader to address Spring Harvest
The former Conservative leader concludes with a call for Christians to join political parties

The Third Way: Sacred or Secular?
CCF Governor Brian Griffiths examines the philosophical roots of Tony Blair's Third Way politics

Millennium Blues: Charles Moore delivers the Third Wilberforce Address
The Editor of The Daily Telegraph questions the content of Tony Blair's 'Christian policies'

The false religion of politics
A talk to CCF by journalist Peter Hitchens

Listening to Britain's Churches: William Hague delivers the Second Wilberforce Address
In this speech the former Conservative leader announced the formation of the Conservative and Churches Standing Committee

Contending for the truth
Lessons for today's Britain from Paul's visit to Athens

The Cross of Christ
A sermon on John 12:20-36 by Rev'd Alex Ross

A moral framework for Conservatism: Peter Lilley gives the First Wilberforce Address
Includes a tribute to Wilberforce by Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach

William Wilberforce: a model Christian politician
A talk by Tim Montgomerie to the 1996 annual prayer receptions of the CCF

Christianity, Compassion and the Market Economy
Peter Lilley MP delivers an address to the CCF's Fifth Anniversary Dinner

Christianity and life are completely intertwined
The late Bishop of Lancaster addressed this subject in an address to CCF in 1995

In the long-run a secular state cannot avoid moral drift
Warns Rt Rev John Perry in a speech to CCF

The Christian essence of Conservatism
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone addressed the CCF's inaugural conference in February 1992




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