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Monday Club

British  

noun

  1. (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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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.

From BBC

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".

From BBC

Wedin was a former military officer, officially working in London writing journalism for the Swedish business community in the early 1980s, whofrequented the Conservative Monday Club and had close links to many powerful Tory party members.

From The Guardian

Mr Dixon was a member of the Monday Club, a group of activists who believed the party had moved too far to the left under Harold Macmillan, and which wielded considerable influence for a time in the party.

From BBC

In an email to Congressional members sent Monday, club president Rick Sullivan said the lack of a title sponsor was the driving force behind the Tour exercising its right to bail on an existing deal, which called for Congressional to host the event in 2018 and 2020.

From Washington Post