The Diary of a Secret Tory MP: (Almost!) True Stories from the Heart of British Politics

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Finally, though, he decided that remaining anonymous was contributing to a fake news environment and he should out himself.

That sense intensified after he first started his Twitter account, a parody of the Conservative MP Mark Francois, which he did “desperately hoping that some of these Tories have got more about them, but they’re really not very bright”.Meanwhile Ellie was working on dance music shows for BBC Radio 1, and Morris “got to know loads of people in the music industry who had two or three pretty lame anecdotes about the time they did something wacky. He and Ellie started Field Maneuvers, a no-frills rave spanning a weekend, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

The anchor didn’t really know what to make of him – what is this regular person doing inside the commentariat? I chose a gym in north London, picked up a load of clients straight away and suddenly I was mixing with all these illustrious people.Into that happy but high-stakes scene, Morris dropped a hand grenade last Wednesday: a video revealing that the Secret Tory, a Twitter account lampooning Conservatives from a thousand directions, has been him all along. The Diary of a Secret Tory MP is an outrageous spoof of the classic political journal that pulls back the Lulu Lytle curtains to expose extraordinary goings-on at Westminster across a tumultuous twelve months.