Guess who's coming to Chequers? Pop stars and tobacco bosses

I happen to be reading Guess who's coming to Chequers? Pop stars and tobacco bosses and started thinking of whom I would like to invite to dinner.

The Chequers: official dinner engagements (8 June 2001-April 2003) include:
Michael Ball - singer

William Birtles - lawyer, partner of Patricia Hewitt

Sue Birtwistle - TV producer, wife of Sir Richard Eyre

Adele Blakeborough - social entrepreneur

Paul Boateng - minister

Edward de Bono - business guru

Alison Brimelow - chief executive of Patent Office

Trevor Brooking - former England footballer

Jim Capaldi - rock star

Anna Capaldi - campaigner

Bill Connor - union boss

Robin Cook - ex minister

James Cracknell - rower

Gavyn Davies - former chair of BBC

Alice Deen - fashion PR

Alain-Dominique Perrin - tycoon

Sir Richard Eyre - former head of National Theatre

William Farish - US ambassador

Clara Furse - Stock Exchange chief

Geri Halliwell - pop singer

Ian Hargreaves - journalism professor

Patricia Hewitt - minister

Robert Hill - Australian minister

Lord Hollick - former boss of Express Newspapers

Ken Hom - chef Sir Ken Jackson - union leader

Lord Janner - Labour peer

Tessa Jowell - minister

Bill Kenwright - theatre/football boss

Dominic Lawson - editor of Sunday Telegraph

Terry Leahy - Tesco boss

Lord Lloyd Webber - theatre boss

Sir David Manning - UK ambassador in Washington

Cathy McGowan - Sixties TV presenter

David Mills - husband of Tessa Jowell

Rosa Monckton - wife of Dominic Lawson

Estelle Morris - former minister

Sue Nye - Gordon Brown's chief of staff

Des O'Connor - singer

Esther Rantzen - TV presenter

Sir Stephen Redgrave - rower

Marjorie Scardino - boss of Financial Times publisher Pearson

Albert Scardino - Guardian executive editor

Jenny Seagrove - actress

Lord Simon - former boss of BP

Mark Studer - barrister friend of Blair’s

Tessa Tennant - ethical investor

Lord Thomas - Labour peer

Sir Andrew Turnbull - cabinet secretary

Jodie Wilson - actress

David Yelland - former Sun editor

I was surprised to find Sue Nye Gordon Brown's chief of staff on the list but those on the list I'd like to meet were Trevor Brooking, Robin Cook, James Cracknell, Gavyn Davies, Sir Stephen Redgrave, Albert Scardino and David Yelland.

Those not on the list that I would invite would be John Simpson (BBC foreign Affairs Editor), Nelson Mandela, Booby Robson (Former Newcastle United Manager), ill & Hillary Clinton, Martin Bell, Muhammad Ali, Andrew Marr, Greg Dyke, Michael Buerk, Desmond Tutu, Menzies Campbell, Mo Mowlam, Bono, David Steel, Shirley Williams and Paddy Ashdown.

There are probably others but I can think of them at the moment.