London CF Young Professionals at Whisky Mist with Toby Young
London CF Young Professionals broke the mould last Friday, 12th August, and headed to the Whisky Mist nightclub in Mayfair for an evening with Toby Young.
The journalist, commentator and author, addressed attendees on the subject of the West London Free School of which he is a co-founder. The school is the first free school in Britain to sign a Funding Agreement with the Secretary of State for Education, the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, and is seen as one of the principal examples of the Government’s new initiative. Despite suffering from the injuries of a cycle accident Toby soldiered on through and, accompanied by his wife, had a great evening meeting and taking questions from our guests. Our guests found it very interesting to hear about some of the obstacles facing free schools and the realities of implementation, as well as a few of Toby’s personal anecdotes.
The club absolutely thronged with young Conservative activists from all over the country until the early hours as our guest list passed the 150 mark. As the popularity of Young Professionals has grown immensely in London since the start of my term we have decided to recognise the group’s proven importance by endowing it with a “Deputy-Chairman Young Professionals”. Michael Bull, who is the current officer, is to fulfil this role. As I said during the evening the next hurdle for the Young Professionals, as the largest body of our membership, is to get more of them involved in our campaigning efforts to get Boris Johnson re-elected as Mayor of London.
To help campaign this weekend for Boris http://www.londoncf.org/event/boris-leafleting-oval-kennington
Our next Young Professionals event with Iain Dale and friends at the Caledonian Club http://www.londoncf.org/event/london-cf-young-professionals-iain-dale-caledonian-club
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