These functions remain largely the same today, and every year the President of the NCC continues to officially open the Party Conference.
Over time, the NUCUA's membership became more clearly defined, and has broadly been the same since the Party's set of extensive internal reforms following their defeat in the 1945 General Election.
In 1998, new Party leader William Hague carried out another extensive reform which led to the NUCUA's renaming as the National Conservative Convention.
In recent years, the Convention's influence over the running of the Party and its campaigning methods has increased heavily.
Generally speaking, after finishing their term, an outgoing Vice-President is elected as the President and Chairs that year's Party Conference.