The group organises speaker meetings, seminars and receptions, supported and attended by Government Ministers past and future.

[5] On 14 April 2013, the group announced that it was setting up a Margaret Thatcher Library as a permanent memorial to the former prime minister.

The project will be based on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, and has the support of several current and former Conservative cabinet members.

It is expected to run training courses for young Conservatives and exchange student programmes to the US and elsewhere, as well as house artifacts from her premiership.

This followed the resignations of Minister of State for International Development Grant Shapps, and the expulsion from the Conservative Party of Mark Clarke, following allegations of bullying of Elliott Johnson.