The Conservative Monday Club (allmänt känt som the Monday Club) är en högerorienterad brittisk tankesmedja och lobbygrupp med kopplingar till Konservativa partiet.Thurlow, Richard, Fascism in Britain, London, 1st edition 1987, revised reprint 2006, p.246, where the author also refers to "traditional party supporters feeling intensly alienated by the Heath administration and made their opposition felt through their support of Enoch Powell". Gruppen grundades 1961 av fyra medlemmar i det konservativa partiet och förespråkar, vad de kallar för, "traditionella konservativa värderingar".
Medlemmar 1970 var 18 parlamentsledamöter medlemmar i klubben:Copping, 1972, p. 21. Geoffrey Rippon (Hexham) Julian Amery (Brighton Pavilion) Ronald Bell QC (South Buckinghamshire) Harold Gurden (Selly Oak) Teddy Taylor (Glasgow Cathcart) John Peyton (Yeovil) Paul Williams (Sunderland South)Copping, Robert, The Story of the Monday Club - The First Decade, London: Current Affairs Information Service, April 1972 Duncan Sandys (Streatham) Joseph Hiley (Pudsey) John Biggs-Davison (Chigwell) Stephen Hastings (Mid Bedfordshire) Victor Goodhew (St Albans) Wilfred Baker (Banffshire) Jasper More (Ludlow) Jill Knight (Edgbaston) Patrick Wall (Haltemprice) Mark Woodnutt (Isle of Wight) Sir Jerry Wiggin (Weston-super-Mare)
Källor Copping, Robert, No Punches Pulled - Britain Today, Current Affairs Information Service (CAIS), Ilford, Essex, n/d but probably circa 1970 (P/B). Copping, Robert, The Story of The Monday Club - The First Decade, (i) (Foreword by George Pole), Current Affairs Information Service, Ilford, Essex, April 1972 (P/B). Copping, Robert, The Monday Club - Crisis and After, (foreword by John Biggs-Davison, MP), (ii) CAIS, Ilford, May 1975 (P/B). Rose, Professor Richard, Politics in England - Persistence and Change, London, 1st published 1965. 4th edition 1985, p. 301, Heffer, Simon, Like the Roman - The Life of Enoch Powell, London, 1998, (many references to the Monday Club). Coxall, Bill, and Lynton Robins, Contemporary British Politics, Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, 1993 reprint, (P/B), Monday Club profile on p. 239.
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