Kenneth Roy Thomason, OBE (14 December 1944 – 16 October 2024) was a British Conservative Party politician.
[1] Thomason was one of 26 new Conservative MPs to sign an Early Day Motion put down by Eurosceptics calling for a "fresh start" in Britain's negotiations with the European Communities,[3] but was not a hardened eurosceptic and signed an open letter calling for support for the 'paving motion' on the Maastricht Treaty in November 1992.
[5] He resigned from the Carlton Club in December 1994 at a time of a dispute over the admission of women, although newspapers suspected this was because he could not justify the cost of membership.
[6] Thomason was censured by the House of Commons Select Committee on Standards and Privileges for failing to declare loans made to him.
[8] After the 1997 election, Thomason went back into business management and was executive chairman of the Charminster group of property companies.