For 10 points, name this British political party of John Major and Margaret Thatcher.
One leader of this party hurt its electoral chances by claiming that their opponents' platform would require "some form of a Gestapo" to implement. Many members of this party used to belong to the Monday Club. This party's leadership contenders apply to its 1922 committee, named for the year in which a meeting at the Carlton Club persuaded this party to leave a coalition. George Soros greatly profited from a decision by one leader of this party to withdraw from the (*) European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, which led to the Black Wednesday currency crisis. That Prime Minister from this party took office after his predecessor was forced out over an unpopular poll tax; that preceding leader of this party closed unprofitable coal mines and beat Argentina in the Falklands War. For 10 points, name this British political party of John Major and Margaret Thatcher.
One leader of this party hurt its electoral chances by claiming that their opponents' platform would require "some form of a Gestapo" to implement.
Conservative and Unionist Party [or Tories; or Tory Party; or Cons]