“There’s a lot of fake news out in the world, and I felt like I was contributing to it” The man behind the Secret Tory Twitter account explains why he decided to reveal his true identity
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Followers have speculated that the person behind the account is a high-profile comedian or a real-life MP. "I inadvertently started parodying Mark Francois at the height of Brexit when I was bored between training clients in my gym," Morris told BBC News. 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.The satirical Twitter account has built up nearly 200,000 followers since its launch in 2019
In 2022, 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.
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