Cambridge University Conservative Association

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Founded	1921
Home Page	www.cuca.org.uk
Senior Officers of the association
President	The Rt Hon. The Lord Howard of Lympne CH, QC, PC, Peterhouse Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is the oldest college of the University, having been founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely...
Vice President	The Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell, MP Andrew Mitchell The Right Honourable Andrew John Bower Mitchell MP is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield... , Jesus College Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
Senior Treasurer	Dr. Nigel Allington, Downing College Downing College, Cambridge Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1800 and currently has around 650 students.- History :...
Officers of the association, Michaelmas Term 2011
Chairman	Matthew S. Johnson, Queens' College Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou , and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville...
Vice-Chairman	Edward Turnham, MA, Christ's College Christ's College Christ's College is a name shared by several educational establishments. Among them are:* Christ's College, Aberdeen, in Scotland* Christ's College, Cambridge, one of the constituent Colleges of the University of Cambridge, England...
Junior Treasurer	Nicholas J. Crawford, Gonville and Caius College Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is often referred to simply as "Caius" , after its second founder, John Keys, who fashionably latinised the spelling of his name after studying in Italy.- Outline :Gonville and...
Campaigns Officer	James M. Wakeley, Clare College Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...
Secretary	Michael Goode, Gonville and Caius College
Registrar	Robert E. Thomas, BA, MSci Trinity College Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
Committee of the association, Michaelmas Term 2011
Committee	Miss S. C. Price, Peterhouse
Committee	C. J. A. Menage, Selwyn College Selwyn College, Cambridge Selwyn College is a constituent college in the University of Cambridge in England, United Kingdom.The college was founded by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of the Rt Reverend George Selwyn , who rowed on the Cambridge crew in the first Varsity Boat Race in 1829, and went on to become the...
Committee	Miss S. R. E. Bennett, Girton College
Committee	L. D. Evans, Trinity Hall Trinity Hall Trinity Hall may refer to:* Trinity Hall, Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge* Trinity Hall, Dublin, hall of residence of the University of Dublin, Trinity College* Trinity Hall, Washington, Pennsylvania, Trinity High School...
Committee	J. R. Messent, Gonville and Caius College
Committee	J. Minchin, St John's College St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....
Committee	Miss S. J. N. Burlton, New Hall New Hall, Cambridge Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded as "New Hall" in 1954, at a time when Cambridge had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in the United Kingdom, and when only two other colleges admitted women...
Former Chairmen in Residence
Ex-Officio (Former Chairman)	Callum P. Wood, BA (Hons) Cantab. Queens' College

The Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA) is a long-established political society going back to 1921, with roots in the late nineteenth century, as a Conservative branch for students at Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

in England

England

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. It is looked upon by the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

as a training-ground for future party leaders.

History

The earliest incarnation of the Cambridge University Conservative Association was established in 1882, but lasted only a few months before dissolving. By 1884, it was necessary for Cambridge Conservatives to launch a new group - the Cambridge University Carlton Club. This served primarily as a dining society, and existed for the next twenty years. However, shortly after the Conservative government's landslide defeat in the 1906 general election, the CU Carlton Club dissolved, just as its predecessor had. There was no Conservative student organisation in Cambridge for the remainder of the Edwardian period, and the First World War saw party political activity suspended.

The present-day Cambridge University Conservative Association was founded in 1921, with its inaugural annual dinner held on 24 January of that year. In 1928, the annual St. John's College magazine The Eagle
The Eagle (magazine)
The Eagle, founded in 1859, is an annual magazine published with the assistance of St. John's College, Cambridge.The poet Thomas Ashe founded The Eagle in the year in which he graduated from St John's., with the help of a college fellow, Joseph Bickersteth Mayor...

defined "a Cambridge Conservative [association member as] the proud possessor of a certain tie, obtained by signifying with a subscription his refusal or his inability to think out any social question."

CUCA alumni had considerable influence on British politics in the 1980s and and 1990s, with the rise to prominence of the 'Cambridge Mafia

Cambridge Mafia

The Cambridge Mafia was a pejorative term which referred to the fact that many senior British Conservative Party politicians of the 1980s and 1990s attended the University of Cambridge at roughly the same time in the early 1960s — many of them served as Chairman of the Cambridge University...

' including cabinet ministers Michael Howard

Michael Howard

Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, QC, PC is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005...

, Kenneth Clarke

Kenneth Clarke

Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke, QC, MP is a British Conservative politician, currently Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He was first elected to Parliament in 1970; and appointed a minister in Edward Heath's government, in 1972, and is one of...

, John Gummer

John Gummer

John Selwyn Gummer, Baron Deben, PC is a British Conservative Party politician, formerly Member of Parliament for Suffolk Coastal, now a member of the House of Lords. He is Chairman of the environmental consultancy company Sancroft International and Chairman of Veolia Water...

and Norman Lamont

Norman Lamont

Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick, PC is a British politician and former Conservative MP for Kingston-upon-Thames. He is best-known for his period serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1990 until 1993...

, who had dominated CUCA and the Cambridge Union in the early 1960s. Considerable overlap between the officeholders of the two societies continues to the present day.

Activities

CUCA holds regular speaker meetings with Conservative politicians and thinkers, as well as campaigning for the Conservatives in elections. CUCA has a well-established history of attracting a high calibre of speakers, often including Cabinet ministers, think-tank experts and even former Prime Ministers. Recent visitors have included John Major

John Major

Sir John Major, is a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990–1997...

, Michael Howard

Michael Howard

Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, QC, PC is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005...

and Eric Pickles

Eric Pickles

Eric Jack Pickles is a British Conservative Party politician. Pickles was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government of the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron on 12 May 2010....

.

The Association also hosts frequent social events and policy discussions, including Thinking and Drinking evenings, policy pub meets, Port and Cheese evenings, cross-party events and the termly Chairman's Dinner, which marks the handing over of the leadership from one chairman to another. High turnouts at these events point to an interested and active society membership. CUCA is the largest of the three main Cambridge University party political associations. Life membership can be purchased for £10, and membership for one academic year costs £5.

It is run by an executive of six; the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Junior Treasurer, Campaigns Office, Secretary and Registrar. They are supported by a Committee of up to eight people, who are often assigned to sub-committees to examine various pressing issues. Following constitutional changes passed in Lent 2009, the Vice-Chairman automatically becomes Chairman in the term following their Vice-Chairmanship.

1938: Pro-Appeasement

CUCA has not been without controversy over the years. In 1938, CUCA hosted Sir Samuel Hoare as he gave a vigorous defence of Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...

's policy of appeasement

Appeasement

The term appeasement is commonly understood to refer to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power. Historian Paul Kennedy defines it as "the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying grievances through rational negotiation and...

towards Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

at Munich

Munich Agreement

The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without...

, calling it "a great achievement" and "the height of exaltation".

1956: Support for the Suez invasion

In reporting and listing widespread student protests across Britain against the invasion of Suez in 1956, The Times noted one exception: "Cambridge University Conservative Association sent telegrams of support to the Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden) and Foreign Secretary (Selwyn Lloyd

Selwyn Lloyd

John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC CBE TD , known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1962...

)."

1960-1: Visits by Sir Oswald Mosley

In 1961, Conservative leader-to-be Michael Howard

Michael Howard

Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, QC, PC is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005...

resigned in protest at Kenneth Clarke's

Kenneth Clarke

decision to invite former British Union of Fascists

British Union of Fascists

The British Union was a political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1932 by Sir Oswald Mosley as the British Union of Fascists, in 1936 it changed its name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists and then in 1937 to simply the British Union...

leader Oswald Mosley

Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, was an English politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists...

to speak to the association for the second year running. (The previous year's speech by Mosley had been marred by a heckler throwing jelly at Sir Oswald.)

1985-6: Visits by Enoch Powell

A visit by Enoch Powell

Enoch Powell

John Enoch Powell, MBE was a British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, and soldier. He served as a Conservative Party MP and Minister of Health . He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made the controversial Rivers of Blood speech in opposition to mass immigration from...

in March 1985 provoked resignations on CUCA's committee, and when Powell returned in December 1986, he was heckled by non-Conservative students. CUCA had also come under criticism for Powell's 1985 appearance in the New Statesman
New Statesman
New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....

, which argued that Powell's extreme views were indicative of CUCA's alleged authoritarianism, and the paper asserting the (short-lived) "Cambridge University Monday Club form part of an unholy alliance with elements of the Left and the now-discredited Cambridge University Conservative Association, who are united in their fervent, even violent opposition to libertarians. Perhaps it is this bizarre grouping which deserves investigation." In October 1968, a previous visit by Enoch Powell just five months after his "Rivers of Blood" speech

Rivers of Blood speech

The "Rivers of Blood" speech was a speech criticising Commonwealth immigration, as well as proposed anti-discrimination legislation in the United Kingdom made on 20 April 1968 by Enoch Powell , the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West...

, during the CUCA Chairmanship of Howard Flight

Howard Flight

Howard Emerson Flight, Baron Flight is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom and a member of the House of Lords. He was Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005...

, saw mass protests in Cambridge, and was reported by The Times.

1965-2000: Allegations of electoral malpractice

The society has, in the past, occasionally hit the headlines of local and national papers over electoral disputes and allegations of malpractice. In 1965,The Times reported that CUCA's Secretary was forced to resign after a four and a half hour meeting deemed some of his election methods to have been forbidden. In 1985, The Times reported that eight committee members of CUCA had "resigned after allegations of electoral irregularities", with one committee member having a tape recording which he claimed proved the allegations. In early 1998, Varsity
Varsity (Cambridge)
Varsity is the oldest of Cambridge University's main student newspapers. It has been published continuously since 1947, and is one of only three fully independent student newspapers in the UK. It appears every Friday around Cambridge...

published a story alleging that "weeks of bitter in-fighting culminated in allegations of election-rigging and a move to censure the society's most senior members". However, Varsity noted that the subsequent motions of censure themselves had no reasons formally attached to them by their proposers and that some of those who had signed them were unaware of why they were supporting them other than on the word of one of the factions involved. Indeed, Varsity articles on CUCA elections subsequently themselves came under fire. Following an Easter 2000 article, "Conservatives in Corruption Crisis", which claimed to be based on a taped telephone conversation and accused the then-Chairman of 'vote-buying', the paper was forced to print a front-page "Rectification" and apology, after threats of legal action.

General press comments on CUCA

In 1980, Private Eye
Private Eye
Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical and current affairs magazine, edited by Ian Hislop.Since its first publication in 1961, Private Eye has been a prominent critic and lampooner of public figures and entities that it deemed guilty of any of the sins of incompetence, inefficiency,...

profiled Conservative MP (and CUCA alumnus) Timothy Eggar

Timothy Eggar

Timothy John Crommelin Eggar is a company director, a Governor of Shiplake College, an independent school for boys in the village of Shiplake in Oxfordshire, and is a former British Conservative Member of Parliament....

, describing him as, "one of those unpleasant political operators that Cambridge University Conservative Association alone knows how to breed." In 1992 The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...

wrote that "competition to rise to the top of CUCA is good preparation for a political career in the Conservative Party, for several reasons. Ideology counts for nothing. What matters is knowing how to make friends and when to stab them in the back. If you cut your political teeth at CUCA, you are liable to end up sporting a sharp set of fangs." In November 1998, it was noted in Varsity that outgoing Chairmen of CUCA were awarded a pair of silver cufflinks (though this is no longer the case), and it was alleged by a committee member that "Several of the last Chairmen only served their terms of office so that they could get the cufflinks." In 2005 The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...

described "a classic CUCA manoeuvre" as being "secretive, conspiratorial, overcomplicated, probably calculated to benefit some chum or other, so clever that it is stupid."

Alumni

As a long-standing and well-connected society, CUCA has produced such notable alumni as:

Humphrey Berkeley, CUCA Chairman in 1948, former Conservative MP (later Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

and SDP
Social Democratic Party (UK)
The Social Democratic Party was a political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the 'Gang of Four': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...

defector), who introduced the first bill to legalise homosexuality
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The Right Honourable
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John Biffen, Lord Biffen
John Biffen
William John Biffen, Baron Biffen, PC, DL , was a Conservative member of the House of Lords, who previously spent 36 years in the House of Commons.-Early life:...

PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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, DL
Deputy Lieutenant
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, CUCA Chairman Lent 1953, former Conservative MP and now a Conservative Peer
Nick Bourne
Nick Bourne
Nicholas Henry Bourne is a Welsh Conservative politician. He served as the Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party and as a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Mid and West Wales electoral region from August 1999 until May 2011...

, CUCA Treasurer, former Leader of the Opposition in Wales and former Conservative Assembly Member
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Leon Brittan, Lord Brittan QC
Queen's Counsel
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, PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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, DL
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....

, CUCA Chairman Lent 1960, former Conservative MP and Cabinet minister and EEC
European Economic Community
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commissioner
European Commissioner
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and now a Conservative Peer.
Sir Antony Buck QC
Queen's Counsel
Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...

, CUCA Chairman Lent 1952, former Conservative MP
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Rab Butler, Lord Butler
Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG CH DL PC , who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician...

KG
Order of the Garter
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CH
Order of the Companions of Honour
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DL
Deputy Lieutenant
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PC, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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, Home Secretary
Home Secretary
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the Home Office of the United Kingdom, and one of the country's four Great Offices of State...

, and Foreign Secretary
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
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, former Conservative MP and Peer.
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Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke, QC, MP is a British Conservative politician, currently Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He was first elected to Parliament in 1970; and appointed a minister in Edward Heath's government, in 1972, and is one of...

QC
Queen's Counsel
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MP
Member of Parliament
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, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1961, President of the Union
Cambridge Union Society
The Cambridge Union Society, commonly referred to as simply "the Cambridge Union" or "the Union," is a debating society in Cambridge, England and is the largest society at the University of Cambridge. Since its founding in 1815, the Union has developed a worldwide reputation as a noted symbol of...

and variously Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor and Conservative MP
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Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg
Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg is a British Liberal Democrat politician who is currently the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord President of the Council and Minister for Constitutional and Political Reform in the coalition government of which David Cameron is the Prime Minister...

PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Sir Stafford Cripps
Stafford Cripps
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production...

PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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, Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Sir Tam Dalyell
Tam Dalyell
Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch, 11th Baronet , known as Tam Dalyell, is a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005, first for West Lothian and then for Linlithgow.-Early life:...

, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1954, former Labour MP and Father of the House
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Hugh Dykes, Lord Dykes, CUCA Chairman Lent 1962, former Conservative MP who later defected to the Liberal Democrats, now a Lib Dem peer
Timothy Eggar
Timothy Eggar
Timothy John Crommelin Eggar is a company director, a Governor of Shiplake College, an independent school for boys in the village of Shiplake in Oxfordshire, and is a former British Conservative Member of Parliament....

, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1972, former Conservative MP
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Howard Flight, Lord Flight
Howard Flight
Howard Emerson Flight, Baron Flight is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom and a member of the House of Lords. He was Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005...

, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1968, former Conservative MP
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Norman Fowler, Lord Fowler
Norman Fowler
Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.-Early life:...

PC, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1960, Secretary of State for Social Services
Secretary of State for Social Services
The Secretary of State for Social Services was a position in the UK cabinet, created on 1 November 1968 with responsibility for the Department of Health and Social Security...

, former Conservative MP and now a Conservative Peer
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John Selwyn Gummer, Lord Deben PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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, CUCA Chairman Easter 1961, Environment Secretary
Secretary of State for the Environment
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during the BSE crisis
Greg Hands
Greg Hands
Gregory William "Greg" Hands, MP is a Conservative Party politician. He is currently the Member of Parliament for Chelsea and Fulham having been elected during the 2010 general election for the newly-created constituency formed with the splitting of the former constituencies of Kensington and...

, CUCA Chairman Lent 1988, Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to George Osborne
George Osborne
George Gideon Oliver Osborne, MP is a British Conservative politician. He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, a role to which he was appointed in May 2010, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001.Osborne is part of the old Anglo-Irish aristocracy, known in...

.
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Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe
Geoffrey Howe
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, QC, PC is a former British Conservative politician. He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and finally Leader of the House of Commons...

CH
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, QC
Queen's Counsel
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, PC, CUCA Chairman Lent 1951, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary, former Conservative MP and now a Conservative Peer.
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Michael, Baron Howard of Lympne, QC
Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, QC, PC is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005...

, Leader of the Conservative Party from 2003 to 2005 and former Conservative MP
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Douglas Hurd, Lord Hurd
Douglas Hurd
Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC , is a British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995....

CH
Order of the Companions of Honour
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, CBE
Order of the British Empire
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, PC, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1951, Foreign Secretary, former Conservative MP and now a Conservative Peer.
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The Right Honourable
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Norman Lamont, Lord Lamont PC, CUCA Chairman Easter 1963, Chancellor during 'Black Wednesday', former Conservative MP and now a Conservative Peer.
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Ian Lang, Lord Lang
Ian Lang
Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton PC is a former British Conservative MP for Galloway from 1979 to 1983 and for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale from 1983 to 1997....

PC, Secretary of State for Scotland
Secretary of State for Scotland
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, former Conservative MP and now a Conservative Peer.
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The Right Honourable
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David Lidington
David Lidington
David Roy Lidington PC is a British Conservative Party politician, who has been Member of Parliament for Aylesbury since 1992...

, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1978, Conservative MP
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The Right Honourable
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Sir Peter Lloyd
Peter Lloyd (politician)
Sir Peter Robert Cable Lloyd, is a retired English Conservative Party politician.Sir Peter was Member of Parliament for Fareham in the south of England from 1979 to 2001, when he retired and was succeeded by Mark Hoban....

, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1959 and former Conservative MP
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The Right Honourable
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Selwyn Lloyd, Lord Selwyn-Lloyd
Selwyn Lloyd
John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC CBE TD , known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1962...

CH
Order of the Companions of Honour
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, PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Speaker of the House of Commons
Speaker of the British House of Commons
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, former MP and Conservative Peer.
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The Right Honourable
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David Mellor
David Mellor
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QC
Queen's Counsel
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, CUCA Chairman Easter 1970, former Secretary of State for National Heritage, former Conservative MP and presenter on the radio station Classic FM
Classic FM
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.
Miles Millar
Miles Millar
-Early life and Career:Millar was educated at Claremont Fan Court School, and is a graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of Cambridge University Conservative Association.....

, CUCA Chairman Easter 1989, Television producer Smallville
Smallville (TV series)
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Sir Simon Milton
Simon Milton (politician)
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, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1982, Deputy Mayor of London
Deputy Mayor of London
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, and former Leader of Westminster City Council
Westminster City Council
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The Right Honourable
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Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell
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, Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield
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and Secretary of State for International Development
Secretary of State for International Development
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, Chairman Michaelmas '77 and President of the Cambridge Union Society Lent '78.
Viscount Monckton
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
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, CUCA Treasurer 1973, Deputy leader of UKIP and former Special Adviser to Margaret Thatcher.
Archie Norman
Archie Norman
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, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1974, former Conservative MP, formerly Chief Executive of Asda
Asda
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and Chairman of ITV
ITV plc
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since January 2010.
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The Right Honourable
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Sir John Nott
John Nott
Sir John William Frederic Nott KCB is a former British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

KCB
Order of the Bath
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, Defence Secretary
Secretary of State for Defence
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and former Conservative MP.
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The Right Honourable
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Michael Portillo
Michael Portillo
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PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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, Defence Secretary and commentator
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The Right Honourable
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Peter Riddell
Peter Riddell
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, CUCA Treasurer c.1967, political commentator
Andrew Roberts, CUCA Chairman Michaelmas 1984, historian
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The Right Honourable
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Norman St.John-Stevas, Lord St. John PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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, FRSL, former Conservative MP, former Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission and now a Conservative Peer.
Graham Stuart, CUCA Chairman Easter 1985, Conservative MP
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The Right Honourable
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Peter Temple-Morris, Lord Temple-Morris, CUCA Chairman Lent 1961, Conservative MP who later defected to Labour, now a Labour peer
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Christopher Tugendhat, Lord Tugendhat, former Conservative MP and Vice-Chairman of the European Commission and a Conservative Peer.
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Adair Turner, Lord Turner, CUCA Chairman, Chair of the Financial Services Authority
Financial Services Authority
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Sir Peter Viggers
Peter Viggers
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, CUCA Chairman Easter 1960, Conservative MP best-known for claiming his duck house on expenses
United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
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The Right Honourable
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Willie Whitelaw, Viscount Whitelaw KT
Order of the Thistle
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, CH
Order of the Companions of Honour
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, MC
Military Cross
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, PC, DL
Deputy Lieutenant
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, Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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and former Conservative MP and Conservative Peer.

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History

Activities

1938: Pro-Appeasement

1956: Support for the Suez invasion

1960-1: Visits by Sir Oswald Mosley

1985-6: Visits by Enoch Powell

1965-2000: Allegations of electoral malpractice

General press comments on CUCA

Alumni

See also

External links