Unionist Free Food League

The Unionist Free Food League was a British pressure group formed on 13 July 1903 by Conservative and Liberal Unionist politicians who believed in free trade and who wished to campaign against Joseph Chamberlain's proposals for Tariff Reform, which would involve an import tax on food.

The former Unionist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, became president of the group.

He was replaced in October 1903 by the Liberal Unionist party leader, the Duke of Devonshire.

In 1906, after the General Election, there were 16 Free Trade Unionists MPs left.

By the end of 1910, following two more General Elections, the only survivor in the House of Commons was Hugh Cecil (who was returned for one of Oxford University's seats), with just a few adherents left in the House of Lords, like Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford.