Monday Club

British

noun

(in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961

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"It's a passion," says 63-year-old Janet, who runs a successful Monday club.

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The Monday club, which offers trips, bingo and socialising, tends to attract the over-50s, but managers are aware of the need to bring in younger members.

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WinifredPatricia Bownes, volunteer coordinator at Cookstown Monday Club - for services to the community in Cookstown, County Tyrone.

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Mr Sands said the actor had continued to visit three or four times a year to catch up with brothers Quentin, Robin, Nick and Jeremy or the "Monday Club" as they called themselves.

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Later in the session, addressing his past as a member of the Monday Club - a right wing organisation aligned with the Conservatives until 2001 - he said he had been "misguided" as a teenager in joining them, and "inspired by the simplicity of an ideology... which has an answer to everything".

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