Meeting Sir John Major, British Prime Minister 1990-97, at a reception in the RICS, Westminster, following the Bow Group annual lecture.

With Jeb Bush, Governor of the State of Florida and brother of US President George W Bush, at a rally for state Republican candidates in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Fiona and I meeting John Bolton, most recently President GW Bush's Ambassador to the United Nations and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, on his way through the hotel lobby to speak at the Presidential Banquet, CPAC 2007 in Washington DC.

Fiona and I after lunch at the 2007 CPAC, Washington DC, with one of her heroes, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, candidate for the Republican nomination for President 2008.

With the Rt. Hon. Michael Howard QC MP, former UK Home Secretary and the then Leader of the British Conservative Party, backstage at a Conservative Party Conference in Dundee, May 2004.

With Dr Liam Fox MP, Shadow Secretary of Defense and former Chairman of the UK Conservative Party, on the campaign trail in Hampshire.

With Rt. Hon. Lord Brittan QC, former Vice President of the European Commission, and the late Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Heath, British Prime Minister 1970-74, and Member of Parliament 1950-2001, at the St Stephens Club, London.

With Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rt. Hon. David Trimble MP, MLA, then Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, now the Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, at a dinner in London with Old Bexley & Sidcup Conservative Association, April 2004.

With David McLetchie MSP, then Leader of the Scottish Conservatives, in the hotel bar at Party Conference in Dundee, May 2004.

With the legendary Katherine Harris (R, FL), member of Congress and candidate for US Senate, at a meeting of local Republicans in Ormond Beach, Florida.

With Steve Norris, Conservative Candidate for Mayor of London, and Roger Evans, London Assembly candidate for Havering & Redridge, in front of the Norris campaign bus in Romford, East London, June 2004.

With Steve Norris, Conservative Candidate for Mayor of London, in the Norris campaign battlebus enroute to a walkabout in Croydon, South London.

With the Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith MP, Leader of the British Conservative Party 2001-2003, backstage at a Scottish Conservative Party rally in Glasgow.

With the Rt. Hon. the Lord Tebbit, CH, formerly Conservative Party Chairman and Employment Minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, previously an airline pilot and trade union leader. Pictured at the Carlton Club, London.

The 2003 CPAC in Arlington, VA, an outstanding event, opened by Vice-President Cheney, featuring over 3000 conservative activists and many 'sound' speakers and lively debates (www.cpac.org)

With the Rt Hon Ken Clarke QC MP, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer 1993-97, in Nottingham at the Conservative Future National Weekend 2003.

Capitol Hill in summer 2002.

The scene at Scottish Conservative Central Office, at 4.30am on the night of the tragic 2001 UK General Election. After attending the Edinburgh count, Scottish Conservative Leader David McLetchie MSP and Campaign Leader Rt Hon Malcolm Rifkind, seated, join the Deputy-Chairman Bill Walker and senior aides to watch in a deflated yet defiant mood as UK Leader William Hague MP concedes to Tony Blair. Rifkind counselled the Tory Students in the room that "the facts of life are conservative" and our time would come, next time for sure.

At Conservative Central Office, Smith Square, London, with cardboard cut-out
of Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP, UK Chancellor. The cheeky cardboard Chancellor,
greatest highway robber since Dick Turpin, on account of fuel tax, is picking
my pocket even while I am apprehending him for raising the tax burden!

At the First Minister's dispatch box in the Scottish Parliament,
whilst working there for Brian Monteith MSP.

Meeting the Rt. Hon. Michael Ancram MP, then Shadow UK Foreign Secretary and Deputy Party Leader,
formerly Minister of State for Northern Ireland in Prime Minister John Major's government.

With Struan Stevenson MEP, President of the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee,
and the Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind QC MP, formerly Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
in Prime Minister John Major's government, and previously the Defense Secretary.

On a fact finding mission with state assembly candidates from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, near Ahmedabad, India.

With Bernard Jenkin MP, then Shadow Transport Secretary, in his North Essex constituency,
whilst working for him at the House of Commons.

With the Chairman of Essex County Council, Cllr Joe Pike, who had kindly
given me a lift to Colchester train station in the County limo.

Discussing strategy with Rt. Hon. Michael Portillo MP, formerly Defense Secretary
in Prime Minister John Major's government, and Sir Malcolm Rifkind (far right)
at a campaign launch in Edinburgh Pentlands.

The winning team at the Ayr by-election! Outside HQ, from left-to-right,
the then Scottish Tory Party Chairman, Raymond Robertson; candidate
John Scott; Scottish Tory Leader David McLetchie MSP; me (in favour due
to our successful campaign website); and Chief-of-Staff John Crawford.

Meeting the then Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. William Hague MP,
on the Ayr by-election campaign trail, with candidate John Scott also.

During the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999, a photocall launching
the Scottish Tories student funding policy with Leader, David McLetchie.

Prime Minister Tony Blair's attention is caught by my "fcuk tuition fees" t-shirt,
while I take this picture, as he walks up the stairway into the newly-convened Scottish Parliament to give an address.