Handbag Party

The clique was named after they dressed like then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with handbags in hand,[2] and sang for the departing Governor Sir Murray MacLehose in a 1982 farewell dinner.

[3] Soon after the handover, rumoured disagreement between Chan and the inaugural Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa diminished the power of the Handbag Party.

[4] As Chan retired early in 2001, others either followed suit or remained in the government of Tung and later of Donald Tsang.

[7] With CY Leung selected as the new Chief Executive, the last prominent member of the Handbag Party left the administration in 2012.

Some of the members leaned towards liberal in 2019, with Yue and Chan calling for an independent enquiry over the large-scale protests, which was rejected by the Lam ministry.