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- Committee_for_a_Free_Britain abstract "The Committee for a Free Britain (also known as the Campaign for a Free Britain) was a right-wing political pressure-group in the United Kingdom. Its introductory letter to all MPs, and others, stated that it was \"formed in the run up to the 1987 General Election by Baroness Cox, the 6th Lord Harris (1920-1995), Downing Street Policy Unit member Christopher Monckton, and novelist and journalist David Hart\". In 1988 Colin Clark and Betty Sherridan joined the Committee.The CFB's first public act was to place advertisements in national newspapers warning the country of the consequences of a Labour victory in the 1987 General Election.David Hart, the CFB's chairman, was active in the miners' strike, supporting miners who opposed strike action. Hart became a personal political advisor to Ian MacGregor then-Chairman of the National Coal Board and a close friend of Hart's brother. The CFB boasted that it paid the legal costs of groups engaged in legal disputes with Labour-controlled local authorities.The CFB invited Adolfo Calero, the Nicaraguan Contra leader, to visit Britain. The visit attracted considerable publicity and, the CFB said, \"helped to ensure that Parliamentarians and the media were properly informed of events in Nicaragua, as well as the position of the Nicaraguan Resistance\".The CFB launched a number of policy campaigns and initiatives during 1988. It supported the Thatcher government's controversial Education Bill. It also called for fundamental reforms of the NHS, and attacked what it called the \"Marxist-dominated National Union of Students\", calling for a right for individual students to opt out of membership; they offered students advice and legal fees to launch legal actions against the NUS. It also supported the Community Charge (Poll Tax) and produced several posters and leaflets backing what it referred to as \"this progressive measure\".In time for the October 1988 Conservative Party Conference, the CFB published a booklet entitled British Foreign Policy - The Case for Reform, featuring a photo on the front cover of Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe giving the clenched-fist salute at a political meeting in southern Africa. In the pamphlet's conclusion it stated that \"The Foreign Office is one of the last of the great British institutions that has escaped the refreshing breath of Thatcherism.\" Howe maintained he had not been giving a black power salute, however, merely that he had been swatting a fly.The London magazine City Limits (October 20, 1988) gave extensive coverage to what they called the \"Tories' Loony Fringe\" activities at the Conservative Conference at Brighton that month, and reported extensively on the CFB's extravagant reception, described as a 'celebration' on the invitation, but in CFB pamphlets as the \"Margaret Thatcher Birthday Spectacular\". Hart, as well as Richard Perle, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense, addressed the audience of conference delegates and M.P.s, which included Lord Young and Malcolm Rifkind. Perle described the December 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev as a stunning rebuke to the unilateralists, and expressed scepticism about Gorbachev. Hart attacked Geoffrey Howe and the Foreign Office's attitude to the Soviet Union as \"appeasement\".The Committee for a Free Britain was still active in 1991, when a full-page advertisement for it, opposing the European Union but supporting free markets, appeared in the Conference edition of Commentary, the glossy magazine of the Conservative Graduates'.".
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