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=== Young Conservatives ===
{{Main|Young Conservatives (UK)}}[[Young Conservatives (UK)|Young Conservatives]] is the [[youth wing]] of the Conservative Party for members aged 25 and under. The organisation aims to increase youth ownership and engagement in local associations.<ref>{{cite news |last=Yorke |first=Harry |date=16 March 2018 |title=Conservative youth wing relaunched in bid to win back millennials from Labour |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/16/conservative-youth-wing-relaunched-bid-win-back-millennials/ |access-date=23 September 2023 |archive-date=13 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913231457/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/16/conservative-youth-wing-relaunched-bid-win-back-millennials/ |url-status=live }}</ref> From 1998 to 2015, the youth wing was called [[Conservative Future]], and had branches at universities and at parliamentary constituency level. It was shut down in 2015 after allegations that bullying by [[Mark Clarke (politician)|Mark Clarke]] had caused the suicide of Elliot Johnson, a 21-year-old party activist.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Riley-Smith |first1=Ben |title=Lord Feldman had 'gravest possible reservations' about Mark Clarke, the Tatler Tory, when handed complaint of bullying |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/18/lord-feldman-had-gravest-possible-reservations-about-mark-clarke/ |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |date=18 August 2016 |access-date=23 September 2023 |archive-date=13 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913231354/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/18/lord-feldman-had-gravest-possible-reservations-about-mark-clarke/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hattenstone |first1=Simon |title=Elliott Johnson: the young Tory destroyed by the party he loved |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/27/elliott-johnson-young-tory-destroyed-by-party-he-loved-mark-clarke |work=The Guardian |date=27 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Yorke |first1=Harry |title=Conservative youth wing relaunched in bid to win back millennials from Labour |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/16/conservative-youth-wing-relaunched-bid-win-back-millennials/ |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |date=16 March 2018 |access-date=23 September 2023 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002220319/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/16/conservative-youth-wing-relaunched-bid-win-back-millennials/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The current incarnation was launched in March 2018.