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Title

Correspondence and papers concerning the Young Conservatives

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CCO 20/47/3

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Barber, Tony, Conservative Party Chairman

Bendall, Vivian, Chairman, Greater London Young Conservatives

Boaden, Roger, National Organising Secretary, Young Conservatives

Fraser, Sir Michael, Deputy Party Chairman

Haselhurst, Alan, National Chairman, Young Conservatives

Hawkins, LFI, National Chairman, The Young Liberal Movement of Australia

Hewlett, Sir Clyde, Chairman, National Union Executive Committee

Johnson Smith, Geoffrey, Conservative Party Vice-Chairman (Youth)

North, Mary, Chairman, Dulwich Conservative Association

Sinclair, Peter JM, Vice-chairman, Greater London Young Conservatives

Subjects include:-

Young Conservatives' preparations for the lowering of the voting age to 18, including estimates of numbers of new voters by Area and constituency

YCs' comment on the dismissal of Enoch Powell from the Shadow Cabinet, Apr 1968

Visit of YC Chairman Alan Haselhurst to Australia, and press reports of his criticism of Party Leader Edward Heath, Jul 1968

10th Conference of the Conservative and Christian Democratic Youth Community (COCDYC), London, Nov 1968

Resolutions submitted to the 1969 YCs National Conference

Visit by Hugh Holland, Chairman of the YCs, to Northern Ireland, May 1969

Replacement of Impact as the National YCs' newsletter, 1969

Includes:-

Minutes of YC NAC meetings, 09/12/1967

Annotated drafts of joint letter from Party Chairman Tony Barber and National Union Executive Committee chairman Sir Clyde Hewlett to constituency chairmen concerning the lowering of the voting age to 18, ND [c.Jan 1969]

Press release containing speech by Eldon Griffiths MP concerning permissiveness, 17/01/1969

YCs' recruitment leaflet 'Get in on the action!', ND [c.1969]

Issues of Democratory, newsletter published by the Greater London Area Young Conservatives