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In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, the Chairman of the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
 is responsible for running the party machine, overseeing Conservative Central Office. When the Conservatives are in power, the Chairman is usually a member of the Cabinet
Cabinet of the United Kingdom

In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body composed of the most senior Her Majesty's Governmentminister chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
 being given a sinecure position such as Minister without Portfolio
Minister without Portfolio

A Minister without Portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry ....
. Deputy or vice-chairmen may also be appointed, with responsibility for specific aspects of the Conservative Party (for example, local government, women or youth).






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In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, the Chairman of the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
 is responsible for running the party machine, overseeing Conservative Central Office. When the Conservatives are in power, the Chairman is usually a member of the Cabinet
Cabinet of the United Kingdom

In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body composed of the most senior Her Majesty's Governmentminister chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
 being given a sinecure position such as Minister without Portfolio
Minister without Portfolio

A Minister without Portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry ....
. Deputy or vice-chairmen may also be appointed, with responsibility for specific aspects of the Conservative Party (for example, local government, women or youth). The position is of a somewhat diminished responsibility compared to its position in the past given that Michael Ashcroft
Michael Ashcroft

Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, Order of St Michael and St George is an international businessman, philanthropist and politician. He was made a life peer in 2000, and is a Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party ....
 now runs the Conservatives campaign for marginal seats.

  • Arthur Steel-Maitland
    Arthur Steel-Maitland

    Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician.The second son of Colonel E. H. Steel and Emmeline, daughter of General Henry Drummond, he was educated at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a classical Scholar and Eldon Scholar in 1899....
     (1911–1916)
  • Sir George Younger
    George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie

    George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie Baronet was a United Kingdom politician.He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. In 1897, he became chairman of George Younger and Son, the family brewing business founded by his great-grandfather, George Younger , of Alloa, Clackmannanshire....
     (1916–1923)
  • Stanley Jackson
    Stanley Jackson

    Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, GCSI, GCIE, Privy councillor, KStJ , known as the Honourable Stanley Jackson during his playing career, was an English national cricket team cricketer, soldier and Conservative Party politician....
      (1923–1926)
  • John Davidson
    J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson

    John Colin Campbell Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson Royal Victorian Order Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the Bath Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British Conservative Party politician best known for his close alliance with Stanley Baldwin....
      (1926–1930)
  • Neville Chamberlain
    Neville Chamberlain

    Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is best known for appeasement foreign policy, in particular regarding his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany, and for his "containm...
     (1930–1931)
  • Lord Stonehaven
    John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven

    John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, Baronet, Order of St Michael and St George, Distinguished Service Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant , was a British Conservative Party politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth Governor-Genera...
     (1931–1936)
  • Sir Douglas Hacking (1936–1942)
  • Thomas Dugdale
    Thomas Dugdale

    Thomas Lionel Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Sir Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baronet, from 1945 to 1959, was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician....
     (1942–1944)
  • Ralph Assheton
    Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe

    Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe, PC was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West from 1950 to 1955....
      (1944–1946)
  • Lord Woolton
    Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton

    Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British businessman and politician....
     (1946–1955)
  • Oliver Poole
    Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole

    Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole, 1st Baron Poole Order of the British Empire, Territorial Decoration, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician, soldier and businessman....
     (1955–1957)
  • Quintin McGarel Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham
    Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

    Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Order of the Garter, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham , was a British judge and Conservative Party politician....
     (1957-1959)
  • Rab Butler
    Rab Butler

    Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, Order of the Garter Order of the Companions of Honour Deputy Lieutenant Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council , who invariably signed his name R....
     (1959–1961)
  • Iain Macleod
    Iain Macleod

    Iain Norman Macleod was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and government minister....
     (1961–1963)
    • Lord Poole
      Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole

      Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole, 1st Baron Poole Order of the British Empire, Territorial Decoration, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician, soldier and businessman....
       (1963, joint chairman)
  • Lord Blakenham
    John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham

    John Hugh Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham, Order of the British Empire, Privy Council was a British peerage and statesman, a younger son of Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel....
     (1963–1965)
  • Edward du Cann
    Edward du Cann

    Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.Du Cann was educated at Colet Court, Woodbridge School and St....
     (1965–1967)
  • Anthony Barber (1967–1970)
  • Peter Thomas (1970–1972)
  • Lord Carrington (1972–1974)
  • William Whitelaw (1974–1975)
  • Peter Thorneycroft
    Peter Thorneycroft

    George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft Order of the Companions of Honour Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician....
     (1975–1981)
  • Cecil Parkinson
    Cecil Parkinson

    Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and former Cabinet Minister....
     (1981–1983)
  • John Gummer
    John Gummer

    John Selwyn Gummer Member of Parliament is a United Kingdom politician, and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Suffolk Coastal . He is chairman of the environmental consultancy company Sancroft International....
     (1983–1985)
  • Norman Tebbit
    Norman Tebbit

    Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament for Chingford, who was born in Southgate, London in London Borough of Enfield....
     (1985–1987)
  • Peter Brooke
    Peter Brooke

    Peter Leonard Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a United Kingdom politician, a former Conservative Party Cabinet of the United Kingdom member, and former Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster ....
     (1987–1989)
  • Kenneth Baker
    Kenneth Baker

    Kenneth Wilfred Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a British politician, a former Conservative Party MP and a Life Member of the Tory Reform Group....
     (1989–1990)
  • Chris Patten
    Chris Patten

    Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group....
     (1990–1992)
  • Sir Norman Fowler
    Norman Fowler

    Sir Peter Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council known as Norman Fowler before he was given his peerage, and now also known as Lord Fowler, is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet of the United Kingdom....
     (1992-1994)
  • Jeremy Hanley
    Jeremy Hanley

    Sir Jeremy James Hanley, Order of St Michael and St George is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom and a chartered accountant, certified accountant and chartered secretary....
     (1994–1995)
  • Brian Mawhinney
    Brian Mawhinney

    Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney Privy Council of the United Kingdom is a British Conservative Party politician. He was a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom from 1994 until 1997 and a Member of Parliament from 1979 until 2005....
     (1995–1997)
  • Cecil Parkinson
    Cecil Parkinson

    Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and former Cabinet Minister....
     (1997–1998)
  • Michael Ancram
    Michael Ancram

    Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Counsel, Member of Parliament , known as Michael Ancram, is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician....
     (1998–2001)
  • David Davis
    David Davis (British politician)

    David Michael Davis is a United Kingdom politician who is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden ....
     (2001–2002)
  • Theresa May (2002–2003)
  • Liam Fox
    Liam Fox

    Liam Fox is a British Conservative Party politician, currently Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet Defence Secretary and Member of Parliament for Woodspring ....
     and Maurice Saatchi (2003–2005)
  • Francis Maude
    Francis Maude

    Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude is a United Kingdom politician. He is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Horsham , Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom....
     (2005–2007)
  • Caroline Spelman
    Caroline Spelman

    Caroline Alice Spelman Member of Parliament, is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has served as Member of Parliament for Meriden , West Midlands since 1997....
     (2007–2009)
  • Eric Pickles
    Eric Pickles

    Eric Jack Pickles is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is currently the Chairman of the Conservative Party following David Cameron's shadow cabinet reshuffle on the 19th January 2009....
     (2009–)


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