Editing Neil Hamilton (politician) (section)

====Western Goals Institute====
Hamilton resumed his activities as a supporter of pressure groups, including the [[Western Goals Institute]], led by ex-Young Monday Club Chairman, Andrew V. R. Smith and attracting the support of other parliamentarians such as Sir [[Patrick Wall]], [[Bill Walker (Scottish Conservative politician)|Bill Walker]], [[Nicholas Winterton]] and the Revd. [[Martin Smyth]]. He was on their parliamentary advisory board.<ref name="Labour Research 1988, p.2">''Labour Research'', November 1988, p. 2.</ref> The Western Goals Institute achieved notoriety by inviting [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]] (leader of the French National Front) and [[Alessandra Mussolini]] ([[Benito Mussolini]]'s granddaughter, a Deputy sitting for the Italian neo-fascist MSI) to address fringe meetings at the 1992 Conservative Party conference. The [[Chairman of the Conservative Party|Party Chairman]] [[Sir Norman Fowler]] was outraged, and said the Conservative Party was not related to the Western Goals Institute. In the event the meetings were cancelled, as neither Le Pen nor Mussolini could come to Britain.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-labour-party-in-blackpool-antifascists-plan-tory-protest-1554511.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-labour-party-in-blackpool-antifascists-plan-tory-protest-1554511.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |title=Anti-fascists plan Tory protest |work=The Independent|date=30 September 1992 |access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>

Hamilton also lent his support to the [[No Turning Back (political group)|No Turning Back Group]] organised by his friend [[Michael Brown (British politician)|Michael Brown]] MP. Other MPs active in the No Turning Back Group included [[Michael Portillo]], [[Peter Lilley]], [[Alan Duncan]] and [[Gerald Howarth]].<ref name="David Leigh pages 76">David Leigh & Ed Vulliamy, ''Sleaze, the Corruption of Parliament'', page 76, {{ISBN|185702-694-2}}</ref>