Publishers Association’s Annual Reception

As Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing, I was delighted to attend the Publishers Association’s Annual Reception in Parliament on Tuesday 9 September 2025.

We heard speeches from the Publishers Association’s President and Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Mandy Hill; Baroness Gail Rebuck, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing; and author and academic, Professor Mike Berners-Lee.

Mike Berners-Lee and I discussed his new book, A Climate of Truth, and the need to raise the standards of honesty in politics.

(Main photo L-R: Rt Hon Valerie Vaz MP, Professor Mike Berners-Lee, Baroness Gail Rebuck, Mandy Hill, Dan Conway, CEO of the Publishers Association)