The person behind the popular Twitter account The Secret Tory has finally unmasked himself, and it's... some random personal trainer from Pembrokeshire.
He told the BBC: ‘It took on a life of its own almost immediately, I remember people in the gym laughing about the account without knowing it was me, and it was very nice to have my hunch confirmed that I could make people laugh.’
It started life named Mark ne Francois pas, a reference to Conservative MP Mark Francois, later changing its name to Michael Govern Ready before ultimately becoming The Secret Tory. Last year he released a book - The Diary of a Secret Tory MP: True Stories from the Heart of British Politics - which was endorsed by the Times columnist Caitlin Moran and the LBC presenter James O'Brien.
Over time, the tone of the Twitter account has changed. Morris said he started ‘going on the attack rather than just playing the jester’.
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