Last Years
Negative publicity, the departure from the Directorate in late 1993 of A.V.R. Smith (replaced by Stuart Millson) and the end of the Soviet Union, meant that the group's activities diminished. In 1994/95 Lauder-Frost, writing as WGI Vice-President, called for the Union of Great Britain to be strengthened and rounded on John Major and Jeremy Hanley's comments about traditional Tories being "the enemies within" the Conservative Party. A successful Annual Dinner, chaired by Lauder-Frost, was held at the Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria, in March 1995, at which the guest-of-honour was the Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament, Peter Robinson, now First Minister of Northern Ireland.
Lack of adequate finance reduced any subsequent campaigning to their occasional policy papers, the glossy newsletter, press releases, and letters to editors. The organisation was wound up in 2001 following the death of its Patron, General Sir Walter Walker.
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