Ernest Bevin Lecture 2025

Tue, 25 Nov 2025, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

Keynote Speaker: General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, former Chief of the General Staff

The rules-based and western-centric global order that has been foundational to the UK's safety, security and prosperity for eighty years is collapsing. From the return of great power competition and the advent of a third nuclear age to the re-emergence of global health crises and the proliferation of transnational crime and terrorism, the world Britain must navigate today is increasingly uncertain and dangerous - and its position within it ever-more precarious.

At this critical juncture, and on the eve of the Government's second Autumn Budget, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL will deliver the Coalition for Global Prosperity's inaugural Ernest Bevin Lecture, where he will delve into the profound threats curtailing Britain's security and prosperity today and ask, in an increasingly dangerous world, what more must the Government do to safeguard the UK's national security?