I really hope there is a follow up to this book for 2023, as it didn’t tire and was a fun, easy listen. He went to the University of Manchester to study comparative religion, moving to London in his late 20s, “because Ellie was there”. It's mostly an extension of a Twitter based parody caricature of late-stage Tories as they hopefully spiral into irrelevance. A very funny satire from The Secret Tory, a spoof Twitter account, who may keep their identity hidden, but definitely has fantastic comedy chops. The parody account, which claimed to be piloted by an “anonymous Conservative MP”, is actually run by a man named Henry Morris, a personal trainer from Yorkshire who lives near Crymych in west Wales.

The Diary of a Secret Tory MP – HarperCollins Publishers UK

He would tweet imagined WhatsApp messages between ministers, Alice in Wonderland fantasias that disappeared into the wilds of Liz Truss’s ignorance and Jacob Rees-Mogg’s creepiness. I went to London completely braced, thinking, ‘Everyone is really switched on and really fast and sharp,’ and I got there and thought, ‘Everyone’s just the same as the people I know back home, maybe not as funny, but they’re doing much more interesting stuff. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. The anchor didn’t really know what to make of him – what is this regular person doing inside the commentariat?Sadly the author has captured all too well the terrifying reality of the UK Tory party since Brexit. 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. True Stories from the Heart of British Politics, which is really sprightly, droll and powered by deep disillusionment. We had these baronesses, lords and millionaires coming in to the gym where I was a personal trainer. And we had these baronesses, lords and millionaires coming in and out, really getting off on talking to people with accents.

The Diary of a Secret Tory MP - Goodreads

The one objective is to destroy the Tories; amplify their ludicrous behaviour and turn it into comedy by making it grotesque. He said: ‘The problem with that was, if people come for you to be funny, and you’re being angry, it doesn’t work. It is hard to satirise the present Tory government and in the short time since publication it has lurched further into farce.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. Although given everything which happened it in 2022 I had to listen in short batches as it is so close to the bone. He and Ellie started Field Maneuvers, a no-frills rave spanning a weekend, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Join the mystery MP as he drunk-texts Liz Truss after a crate of WKD, accompanies Jacob Rees-Mogg (and his kids) to picket a foodbank, takes on the French in the 'Trawler Wars', and euthanises Rishi Sunak's dog - and that's just October.

The Diary of a Secret Tory MP (Hardback) - Waterstones

If you’ve been keeping up with recent politics from the past 2-ish years and aren’t a fan of the current batch of tories, this book is really funny. The Diary of a Secret Tory MP: private dodgy dispatches from the heart of Westminster by Anon is published by Harper Collins.

Henry Morris has spent the past four years building up 200,000 followers on Twitter under his Secret Tory alias, where he posts fake insights and cutting, witty, content supposedly from a right-leaning constituency. He hasn’t stopped talking all weekend,” was one recent tweet from the account, with Morris describing himself as an “Anonymous Conservative MP and part-time arms dealer”. Henry Morris is a personal trainer and rave promoter, and author of the infamous Diary of a Secret Tory MP. The difficult thing is that the Tory party was such a shambles during this period that they were almost beyond parody and to push the kind of things real-life politicians have been proven to have done makes it too fanciful to be funny.