Kenneth Harry Clarke,Baron Clarke of Nottingham,is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 1992 to 1993 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rushcliffe from 1970 to 2019 and was Father of the House of Commons between 2017 and 2019. The President of the Tory Reform Group since 1997,he is a one-nation conservative who identifies with economically and socially liberal views.
Michael Howard,Baron Howard of Lympne is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major,including Secretary of State for Employment,Secretary of State for the Environment and Home Secretary.
James Norwich Arbuthnot,Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom,,is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997,and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.
Peter Bruce Lilley,Baron Lilley,PC is a British politician and life peer who served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) Hitchin and Harpenden from 1997 to 2017 and,prior to boundary changes,St Albans from 1983.
Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst,Baron Haselhurst,,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017,having previously represented Middleton and Prestwich from 1970 to February 1974. Haselhurst was Chairman of Ways and Means from 14 May 1997 to 8 June 2010,and later Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2011 and 2014. The oldest Conservative MP to stand down at the 2017 general election,he was created a life peer on 22 June 2018,sitting in the House of Lords as Baron Haselhurst.
Graham Stuart Brady,Baron Brady of Altrincham,,is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Altrincham and Sale West from 1997 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,he was the chairman of the 1922 Committee from 2010 to 2024,except for a brief period during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.
Jonathan Peter Evans FRSA is a Welsh lawyer,businessman and former politician. He has been Chairman of the British Insurance Brokers Association since 1 January 2020.
Mark Christopher Field is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cities of London and Westminster from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2017 to 2019. A prominent supporter of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union during the Brexit referendum and of Jeremy Hunt in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election,he left his post as a Foreign Office Minister when Boris Johnson's premiership began. He stood down from the British House of Commons at the 2019 general election.
Sir Roger James Gale is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Herne Bay and Sandwich,previously North Thanet,since 1983. He had a career in journalism and broadcasting from 1964,around the same time as he joined the Conservative Party,until 1983.
Tunbridge Wells is a constituency in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Mike Martin,a Liberal Democrat.
The Cambridge University Conservative Association,or CUCA,is a student political society founded 1921,as a Conservative Association for students at Cambridge University,although it has earlier roots in the late nineteenth century. CUCA is not affiliated with the nationwide youth branch of the Conservative Party,the Young Conservatives,but is a fully independent Association distinct from other Conservative youth organisations. The association puts on a range of events for its members each term,notably its ‘Port &Policy’debates,as well as addresses from a number of high-profile speakers.
Stuart Alan Ransom Rose,Baron Rose of Monewden,Kt is a British businessman and life peer,who was the executive chairman of Marks &Spencer until 2010,remaining as chairman until early 2011. He was knighted in 2008 for his services to the retail industry and created a Conservative life peer on 17 September 2014,taking the title Baron Rose of Monewden,of Monewden in the County of Suffolk.
Iain Dale is a British broadcaster,author,political commentator,and a former publisher and book retailer. He has been a blogger since 2002. He was the publisher of the Total Politics magazine between 2008 and 2012,and the managing director of Biteback Publishing until May 2018. Since September 2010,he has hosted a regular discussion show on the radio station LBC. He was named Radio Presenter of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards in 2013 and 2016. On 28 May 2024,he announced that he was quitting his LBC roles to run as an MP in the 2024 United Kingdom general election,only to abandon his campaign three days later. He returned to his usual LBC slot on 3 June.
Allan Leighton is a British businessman,former chairman of The Co-operative Group,former CEO of Asda,former chief executive of Pandora,and former non-executive chairman of the Royal Mail. He is also the co-owner of Brackley Town.
Andy Hornby is an English businessman,currently chief executive of The Restaurant Group,a British chain of restaurants and public houses.
Nick Leslau,born 18 August 1959,is an English commercial property investor,with an estimated net worth of £400 million. Leslau is chairman and chief executive of Prestbury Investment Holdings Limited,and chairman of Prestbury Investments LLP. He is a 30 percent shareholder in Prestbury's AIM listed Secure Income REIT,which owns tourist attraction venues such as Thorpe Park,Warwick Castle,and Alton Towers on a long-term lease to Merlin Entertainments. Secure Income REIT also owns 20 private hospitals and 55 Travelodge hotels in the UK.
Gregory David Clark is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2016 to 2019. He also was Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2015 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities from July to September 2022. Later,he was the Chair of the Science,Innovation and Technology Select Committee. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tunbridge Wells from 2005 until 2024.
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Faversham and Mid Kent since 2015 and Shadow Secretary of State for Transport since July 2024. She served as Minister of State for Social Care from October 2022 to July 2024,and previously from 2020 to 2021. She also served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2021 to 2022.
Major James Stephen Heappey is a British politician and former soldier who served as Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 2020 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wells in Somerset from 2015 to 2024.
Robert William Ashburnham Swannell is a British businessman,public servant and former investment banker. He was the chairman of Marks &Spencer from 2011 to 2017,and chairman of the Shareholder Executive and its successor UK Government Investments from 2014 to 2021.
