Members of the Women Veteran Debate Team To Visit Cambridge University Debate Chambers.

Cambridge University Debating Society is the oldest debating society in the world, and the largest student society in Cambridge, the Union remains a unique forum for the free exchange of ideas and the art of public debate. The Union Society is proud of our long and extensive tradition of hosting prominent figures from all areas of public life, including the Dalai Lama, President Ronald Reagan, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and John Major. In late 2021 .

The Debating Society students kindly gave up their free time to train a group of women veterans taking part in the Forward Assist Veterans Debate Project in the principles and rules of British Parliamentary Debate. Forward Assist and Salute Her UK were honoured to accept an invitation to take a group of women to watch a debate in the chambers in the March 2022, as the society’s guests of honour.