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Before that, he’d gone to a “not very good comprehensive school, which I hated”, then became an auxiliary nurse, “which is the hardest amount of work you can do for the least amount of money. My dad is very clever, he has a lot of varied interests, both my parents have, which they seem to have passed on to me.
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”. Surprisingly literate, The Secret Tory is also behind the trenchant and insightful Papua New Guinea Courier, also available via his twitter page.He arrived in London as a guy who could run 110 miles without stopping, “over the Cleveland hills as well; there’s more ascent in it than Everest”, and became a personal trainer.
His other notable big run was to every site where a hen harrier had been poisoned or otherwise destroyed, to preserve grouse shoots; that was for Chris Packham’s charity, Wild Justice. It was through Abbey Shakespeare Players that he met his wife in his early 20s, but “I was a bit wild at the time, getting into all sorts of scrapes, so she wasn’t having anything to do with me then. The anchor didn’t really know what to make of him – what is this regular person doing inside the commentariat?The one objective is to destroy the Tories; amplify their ludicrous behaviour and turn it into comedy by making it grotesque.
A school friend, Benjamin Harvey, collaborates on the videos “and ended up tweeting it on Ellie’s due date. True Stories from the Heart of British Politics, which is really sprightly, droll and powered by deep disillusionment. I’d always thought [about politicians]: ‘There are some bad apples but largely they are trying to make the world a better place. As his personal training business grew, he was working at a gym with two friends who “were also reformed characters; they’d been in even more scrapes than I had when I was younger.
Lots of Conservative MPs were following him on Twitter; people started to slide into his DMs to congratulate him on a point well landed, or make suggestions. He and Ellie started Field Maneuvers, a no-frills rave spanning a weekend, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
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