Foundation and Organisation
The CDA was formed mostly by disaffected members of the Conservative Monday Club, another right-wing pressure group, who disagreed with the club's response to the Conservative Party's severing of links with the Club in 2001. A journalist writing in The Daily Telegraph described the CDA as "a hardline offshoot of the Monday Club".
The group was described as "ultra-right" by the Commission for Racial Equality.
The group's Chairman was Michael Keith Smith, who had been a member of the Conservative Monday Club since the early 1970s, and served on its Executive Council, 1986 - 1993.
Original members of the CDA's steering committee included:
- Sam Swerling, lately a British National Party activist who was formerly a Conservative Party parliamentary candidate and Councillor on Westminster City Council;
- Stuart Millson, an independent councillor for East Malling and Larkfield Parish Council,, founder of the short-lived Revolutionary Conservative Caucus.
- Gregory Lauder-Frost, former Political Secretary, and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, of the Monday Club.
Millson and Lauder-Frost are both former active members of the Conservative Party, the Monday Club's Executive, as well as the Western Goals Institute, and both were members of the council of the Traditional Britain Group, of which Lauder-Frost remains Vice-President.
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