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- Cambridge_Mafia abstract "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 Conservative Association, or President of the Cambridge Union Society, and several of them held both offices. Apart from Leon Brittan none of them attained great academic distinction at University. The group's contemporaries at Cambridge included satirist and journalist David Frost and comedian Peter Cook (both of whom were active in Footlights at the time), Canadian Supreme Court justice Ian Binnie, historian Angus Calder, and Liberal Democrat politician Vince Cable.The period of prominence of the Cambridge Mafia was something of an aberration for the Conservative Party, which traditionally has closer links to Oxford than Cambridge. Between 1955 and 1990 the party was led by five consecutive Oxford graduates (Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher). The group has been succeeded by a newer generation of Conservative politicians, again led by Oxford graduates (notably David Cameron, William Hague and George Osborne). They were of relatively modest social background — several of them (Fowler, Howard, Clarke) had attended grammar school rather than fee-paying schools. In his memoirs Norman Fowler records that during his National Service, although he became a commissioned officer, it was in an ordinary county regiment (Essex) rather than the fashionable Guards or cavalry regiments favoured by young men from elite social backgrounds (as National Service was abolished in 1960, most members of the \"Cambridge Mafia\" just missed having to serve).They included:A famous photograph, reproduced in a number of biographies of Clarke and Howard, shows Brittan and Gummer as ushers at Clarke's wedding shortly after his graduation, with Fowler, Howard and Lamont also present.It should not be assumed that these men all operated as a cohesive unit throughout their careers. Brittan and Fowler — who were slightly older — were Cabinet Ministers in the 1980s, earlier than the others. Howard entered Parliament in 1983, much later than his contemporaries, having first had a successful career as a barrister. In the early part of 1993 Clarke and Howard (both of whom angled publicly for the job — it was given to Clarke) both pushed for the removal of Lamont as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Clarke and Howard were rivals for the party leadership in 1997, and almost again in 2003 (although in the event Clarke did not stand and Howard was elected unopposed — Howard had not been a candidate in the 2001 contest, in which Iain Duncan Smith had defeated Clarke).Howard was the only member of the group to become party leader, and none became Prime Minister. By the time the Conservatives returned to government in 2010, Clarke and Lilley were the only members of the group who remained in the House of Commons; Clarke was appointed Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor.".
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- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Alec_Douglas-Home.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Angus_Calder.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Anthony_Eden.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge_Union_Society.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge_University_Conservative_Association.
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- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Clare_College,_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Conservative_Party_(UK).
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink David_Cameron.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink David_Frost.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Heath.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Essex_Regiment.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Fitzwilliam_College,_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Footlights.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink George_Osborne.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Gonville_and_Caius_College,_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Grammar_school.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Harold_Macmillan.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Ian_Binnie.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink John_Gummer.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Kenneth_Clarke.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Leader_of_the_Conservative_Party_(UK).
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Leon_Brittan.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Democrats.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Cambridge_Union_Society_presidents.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_former_chairmen_of_Cambridge_University_Conservative_Association.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Lord_Chancellor.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Margaret_Thatcher.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Howard.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Norman_Fowler.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Norman_Lamont.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Pejorative.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Cook.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Lilley.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Peterhouse,_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Secretary_of_State_for_Justice.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Selwyn_College,_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Supreme_Court_of_Canada.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Trinity_College,_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Trinity_Hall,_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Oxford.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink Vince_Cable.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLink William_Hague.
- Cambridge_Mafia wikiPageWikiLinkText "Cambridge Mafia".
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- Cambridge_Mafia subject Category:Conservative_Party_(UK)_factions.
- Cambridge_Mafia subject Category:Conservative_Party_(UK)_terms.
- Cambridge_Mafia subject Category:History_of_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia subject Category:History_of_the_Conservative_Party_(UK).
- Cambridge_Mafia subject Category:People_associated_with_the_University_of_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia subject Category:Politics_of_Cambridge.
- Cambridge_Mafia hypernym Term.
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- Cambridge_Mafia comment "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 Conservative Association, or President of the Cambridge Union Society, and several of them held both offices. Apart from Leon Brittan none of them attained great academic distinction at University.".
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