“Politics will lead you down many paths, but a conservative and a patriot will never be far from the Bow Group. Against the tide of globalism, liberalism, and Marxism the Bow Group stands resolute.
The Bow Group is where conservatism begins and ends in Britain, there is nowhere else like it.”
Ben Harris-Quinney, Bow Group Chairman
“It is my honour to accept the role of Senior Patron of the Bow Group, one of the very few conservative institutions that has been there throughout my life, and is ever renewing its commitment to conservatism…rather than demuring from it.”
Sir Roger Scruton, Bow Group Honorary Patron
“It’s so important to have a really strong intellectual base from which to develop policy, and the research material that began the Brexit movement and the Maastricht rebellion was a pamphlet published by the Bow Group. The Bow Group has always been at the heart of British and conservative patriotism.”
Sir Bill Cash MP, Bow Group Senior Patron
“All organisations that are not avowedly right-wing will eventually become left-wing.”
Dr John O’Sullivan, Bow Group Senior Patron
Britain and the world’s oldest conservative think tank
Britain and the world’s oldest conservative think tank
Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney has said that the government's Net Zero green agenda is the worst of both worlds: high-cost to the British consumer and high-carbon to import.
Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney has criticised the government for "tak[ing] their eye off the ball on key domestic issues because there is a war in Ukraine, in which we are rightly not involved”.
Bow Group chairman Ben Harris-Quinney has said the UK should drop its "ludicrous" green agenda and focus on energy independence.
Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney has said that the UK needs to develop a crisis asylum policy as the number of people fleeing Ukraine could number in the millions.
Bow Group patron Dr David Starkey has said the UK has been too preoccupied with illusions rather than ensuring energy independence.
Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney said that if Scotland left the United Kingdom, it could be resemble Greece, post financial crisis, in terms of national debt.
Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney has warned that Scotland would be a poorer country outside of the UK.
The government's new immigration bill will do nothing to stop the mass flow of illegal migrants coming across the English Channel, a Bow Group Fellow has said.
Ben Harris-Quinney has called for an inquiry into Carrie Johnson's "interference in government" and for "her ideas" to be removed from Downing Street "and from access to all levers of power".