style="font-size: larger;" | Clare Politics

Founded	2006
Website	www.clarepolitics.co.uk
Political position	Non-partisan
Honorary Patron	Matthew Parris Matthew Parris Matthew Francis Parris is a UK-based journalist and former Conservative politician.-Early life and family:...

Clare Politics is a student-run political society based at Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...

. Its self-proclaimed aim is "to bring the leading figures from the world of politics and current affairs to Clare to discuss the issues of the day".

The society was founded in 2006 by a history undergraduate, Matt Clifford. The honorary patron of the society is Clare alumnus and Times

The Times

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journalist Matthew Parris

Matthew Parris

Matthew Francis Parris is a UK-based journalist and former Conservative politician.-Early life and family:...

, who presented the society's inaugural event that year. Since its inception, the society has played host to diverse speakers across the political spectrum, including Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti CBE , has been the director of Liberty, a British pressure group, since September 2003. Chakrabarti is the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.-Early life:...

, Douglas Hurd

Douglas Hurd

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC , is a British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995....

, Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage

Nigel Paul Farage MEP , a position he previously held from September 2006 to November 2009. He is a current Member of the European Parliament for South East England and co-chairs the Eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy group....

, Lord Adonis

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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, former Governor of Virginia

Governor of Virginia

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 Doug Wilder

Douglas Wilder

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, and more recently Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie

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, Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart

Simon David Hoggart is an English journalist and broadcaster. He writes on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for The Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on Radio 4...

, George Steiner

George Steiner

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, and MP

Member of Parliament

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s Jon Cruddas

Jon Cruddas

Jonathan Cruddas is a British Labour Party politician who is the Member of Parliament for Dagenham and Rainham. He was first elected in 2001 to the seat of Dagenham....

, Julian Huppert

Julian Huppert

Julian Leon Huppert is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom and Member of Parliament for Cambridge since 2010...

 and Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor

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.

The society has an associated Facebook

Facebook

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 group and Twitter

Twitter

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feed.