Conservative Philosophy Group

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The Conservative Philosophy Group was formed in Spring 1975 by Roger Scruton and John Casey as an attempt to provide ideas for conservatism at a time when the Conservative Party had just lost two general elections and elected a new leader, Margaret Thatcher.

Hugh Fraser MP, Jonathan Aitken MP, Alan Clark MP, Enoch Powell, Maurice Cowling, Edward Norman, Alfred Sherman, Paul Johnson, T. E. Utley, Conrad Black, Lord Bauer, Robert Blake, Lord Sieff, Lord Weinstock, Hugh Thomas and Anthony Quinton were members. The following addressed the group: F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Michael Oakeshott, Elie Kedourie and Harold Macmillan.

Mrs. Thatcher attended the group on a number of occasions and Aitken claims she said to him whilst attending a meeting, 'We must have an ideology; the other side have got an ideology they can test their policies against. We must have one as well'.

The CPG disbanded sometime during the Major years.

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