When Oxford Tory group failed to pay £1,200 bill...

A controversial Oxford Tory club failed to pay a £1,200 charity black tie dinner bill at Cavalry and Guards Club where Liam Fox was guest of honour. It led to the 88-year-old society suffering the indignity of being stripped of its university recognition.

The association, which counts Baroness Thatcher as its patron, has lost the right to use Oxford’s name after it failed to settle a £1,200 debt for the black-tie banquet, attended by the former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox.

The society, whose former members include five current Cabinet ministers, held the dinner for 32 in support of the Army Benevolent Fund at the Cavalry and Guards Club on Pall Mall in June 2009.


But despite the best efforts of military club to chase the £1,215.06 debt, it seems no one recalls who was meant to put the cheque in the post.