Michael Dukakis: In Conversation

At this exclusive event, former US Presidential candidate Mike Dukakis is joined by one of the leading British political figures of recent decades - Kenneth Baker - to discuss the complexities of winning support for policies, and the business of elections on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Michael Dukakis served an unprecedented three, four-year terms as Governor of Massachusetts . He entered the Governor's office as a cost-cutting conservative to fix the debt-riddled state budget. Buoyed by budget success and a rapidly expanding economy, he expanded state services and promoted the "Massachusetts Miracle" as a model for America. In his, initially successful 1988 run as Democratic candidate for President, the undermining tactics employed by his opponent George Bush Snr ultimately lost him the election.
• Kenneth Baker was an Conservative Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1992. He held a variety of senior ministerial positions - Secretary of State for the Environment, Secretary of State for Education, and, in John Major's Cabinet, the post of Home Secretary. He also served as Chairman of the Conservative Party.