The Federation of Conservative Students thrived in the Thatcher era

In this Sunday Supplement, we return to the tale of the teenage Thatcherite ultras who called a Tory prime minister a war criminal and urged the legalisation of prostitution.

The Federation of Conservative Students were abolished by a queasy party leadership. So what happened to the ideologues who were once the future of Conservatism? The Times Columnist Tim Hames revisits the heady days of the 1980s in the concluding part of A Burst of Freedom.

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