Explore perspectives on the enduring relationship between the US and the UK with former Foreign Secretary Lord (William) Hague of Richmond and US Ambassador Woody Johnson in conversation with Richard Graham MP

400 years on from the voyage of the Mayflower, and 75 years after the Bretton Woods agreement gave us today’s global structures, the US / UK relationship still matters greatly. What is at its core, what works best and what are the tensions? Above all how important is it that this relationship continues to thrive?

Current US Ambassador to the Court of St James Woody Johnson and former Foreign Secretary and award winning historical biographer William Hague discuss separately with Festival chair and Gloucester’s MP Richard Graham the extraordinary ties between the UK, including Gloucestershire, and the US