Mostyn Neil Hamilton is a British former barrister and politician who has been leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) since 2020. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from 1983 to 1997 and a UKIP Member of the Senedd (MS) for Mid and West Wales from 2016 to 2021.
The Conservative Monday Club is a British political pressure group, aligned with the Conservative Party, though no longer endorsed by it. It also has links to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Northern Ireland.
Peter Leonard Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Cities of London and Westminster from 1977 to 2001.
Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, PC DL is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997.
Edward Henry Garnier, Baron Garnier, is a British barrister and former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. A former lawyer for The Guardian newspaper, Lord Garnier is on the socially liberal wing of his party and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harborough in Leicestershire from 1992 until 2017. He most recently served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from the election of 2010 until the 2012 ministerial reshuffle. He stood down from the House of Commons at the 2017 general election before entering the House of Lords in 2018.
Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983.
Stephen William Hammond is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wimbledon since 2005.
Sir Robert Goodwill is a British Conservative Party politician and farmer serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby since 2005. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Goodwill served in Theresa May’s government as Minister of State at the Home Office, the Department for Education and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Adam Mensah Osei Afriyie is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor since 2005. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Derek George Henry Laud is a British banker with wide business interests, who is also an accredited journalist and has written on social, political, travel, and tennis topics. He is the Chairman of the Foundation Board of Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge, and the first elected male honorary fellow in the history of the college. He also chairs the North American Committee, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. He is a former Chairman of One Stop Car shop and chairman of the Board of the Ravenstone House Group of Schools in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Laud is visiting professor at London South Bank University in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. He is a former lobbyist, and has specialist knowledge of the financial services regulatory sector, and was at one time adviser to all five UK financial services regulators, including the Securities and Investments Board (SIB). All these regulators folded into the Personal Investment Authority (PIA), where Laud was adviser to the Board, and to Sir Gordon Downey, the Chairman. Sir Gordon is a former government Auditor General and first chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for Standards. The PIA was eventually replaced by the Financial Conduct Authority. Laud is a partner in the private banking sector. He is also Senior Adviser at Stern & Co, a Rothschild family wealth management company. He currently sits on the board of the Overseas Territories and is Executive Director. Laud has been a political adviser, speechwriter and journalist, who is a regular contributor to the Daily Maverick. He also writes for UK news titles, such as the Guardian,Financial Times and Mail on Sunday. He received public attention when he was a contestant on the 2005 series of the British reality television show Big Brother. Laud is co-founder and Executive Director of the New City Initiative, a think tank for the finance sector. He is also a partner, partnership secretary, Director of the Advisory Board, and Director of Global Corporate Affairs at wealth management company Stanhope Capital LLP, where Lord Browne of Madingley, the former Group CEO of BP, chairs the advisory board, upon which Laud sits. Laud was the first black member of the Conservative Monday Club and first black master of foxhounds in the United Kingdom and is entitled to use the letters MFH after his name, but chooses not to do so.
The Cambridge University Conservative Association, or CUCA, is a long-established 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.
Sir Peter Hugh Morrison was a British Conservative politician, MP for Chester from 1974 to 1992, and Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Sir Ivan John Lawrence is a former British Conservative Member of Parliament and criminal barrister.
The 92 Group is a right-wing grouping within the British Conservative Party. They are so named because they would meet at Conservative MP Sir Patrick Wall's home, 92 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, London. It was founded in 1964 in order to "keep the Conservative Party conservative" and membership is by invitation only. During the period of Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the Conservative Party it was a prominent supporter of her policies. During John Major's premiership it became a focus for Thatcherite MPs dissatisfied with his leadership, and it was prominent in supporting John Redwood's unsuccessful candidacy against Major for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1995.
Sir Rupert Malise Speir was a British Conservative Party politician.
Robert Fisher Crouch was a British farmer and politician. In Parliament, as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for North Dorset, he specialised in agricultural issues, and was known as an independent-minded politician. His most notable contribution was to bring to public attention the Crichel Down affair, in which the Government's failure to sell requisitioned land back to its original owner led to the resignation of the Minister responsible.
Sir William Arthur Colegate was a British Conservative Party politician who served in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1955.
Elijah Sandham was an English Independent Labour Party (ILP) politician from Lancashire. He sat in the House of Commons from 1929 to 1931 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kirkdale division of Liverpool, and in 1934 he led the breakaway Independent Socialist Party.
Sir Cyril Julian Hebden Taylor was a British educator and social entrepreneur, who founded the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) in 1964. He served as an education reformer and special adviser to successive elected British Governments from 1987 to 2007 and founded the City Technology Colleges Trust, subsequently the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT).
Scott Lloyd Benton is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackpool South since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he was previously a councillor on Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council.
