Revolutionary Conservative Caucus

The Revolutionary Conservative Caucus was a small, right-wing pressure group which attempted to introduce a new radicalism into British conservatism.

It was founded in November 1992 by Stuart Millson, an officer of the Western Goals Institute, and Jonathan Bowden; members were said to include Mark Cotterill and Steve Brady formerly of the National Front and Derek Turner. Millson's close friend from the Monday Club, Gregory Lauder-Frost, acknowledged he was a "supporter" in a letter published in one of their journals.

It met limited success in its short existence of just over two years, lacking a substantive membership base. Sir Norman Fowler attacked them, stating in The Sunday Express: "These people are not remotely typical of mainstream Conservatives", and Jerry Hayes, Conservative Party MP was quoted in the same newspaper as saying "They are a grim bunch". James Glyn Ford MEP went even further by announcing at the 1993 Labour Party Conference: "The Tories have a far-Right tendency....I have passed details of the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus to Special Branch". However the Conservative MP Rupert Allason was quoted in Searchlight magazine as saying "If they are against Maastricht, they can't be bad." Although disbanded after Millson and Bowden parted company at the end of 1994, it "managed to redraw a right-wing nationalist agenda" and played a crucial part towards introducing philosophical discussion into far-right politics in Britain and was an influence on the establishment of the magazine Right Now! which was edited by Derek Turner.

In its lifetime, the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus published policy papers as well as a magazine entitled The Revolutionary Conservative, commencing with an unnumbered "Review", in which Millson & Bowden stated that "the Caucus has been established by Right-wing activists within the Conservative Party in order to disseminate information, ideology and intellectual opinion within and beyond the party". Issue number 1 gave a very full description of the RCC's ideals, which included "a totalitarian onslaught of mind-numbing extremity against Political Correctness". Issue no.2 carried an article entitled "Our type of Toryism" which argued that there was a growing consciousness that Britain's heritage and traditions were facing extinction. It attacked "de-industrialisation, the cult of utilitarianism, widespread public apathy, mass-immigration from the Third World, the indifference of influential politicians, churchman and literati and the censorship of ideas", adding that "in combination they are acting against the long-term interests of our country. Issue number 3 was entirely devoted to the continuing power struggle within the Monday Club following Gregory Lauder-Frost's resignation at the end of May 1992. Issue no.4 (Summer-Autumn 1994) had two major treatises on "Ethnic Cleansing in Britain", and "The Case for Right-Wing European Union".