![]() "I'm pretty confident I can carry on doing it, there's loads of stuff I want to write. Henry Morris with his book: The Diary of a Secret Tory MP: (Almost!) True Stories from the Heart of British Politics. But he doesn't believe his writing journey has stopped there. There has been so much interest in the jokes which Morris shared that he also published a book in 2022, titled The Diary of a Secret Tory MP: (Almost!) True Stories from the Heart of British Politics, receiving positive reviews such as those from LBC host James O'Brien and Times columnist Caitlin Moran. It's great to find out that I can do it by getting 200,000 followers from a flat start where all the other comparable accounts have got TV shows or their own columns and stuff." I love making people laugh, it's great fun. I think they were all expecting some kind of Oxbridge, suited academic. "Revealing myself and looking like I do I think more people will look at me as more of a character if that makes sense. And I said a few political things in the news this morning and actually it seemed to get more traction than it did before but I honestly don't think it will make much difference. ![]() "I fired off a few tweets yesterday basically in the style of as I did it in before and actually it did just as well coming out of my mouth pretending a Tory MP's going to come and kick my head in. And my close circle did, they were always showing me when things went viral and taking the mick out of me.”Īfter his unmasking, what next? “It figures if the jokes I was doing as a Tory MP were funny, I can carry on being funny as Henry Morris, unless there’s some secret about being a tory that makes you funnier.," he said. “My wife’s family, it was quite a struggle trying to get them to keep it quiet but they were pretty good. But in the last year, people who knew me inevitably told more people. ![]() “They kept it quite a good secret for at least the first three years. Although his name was not widely known until recently, he has told individual people gradually since he set the account up. "And a lot of people just couldn’t believe that it was a normal person."īut Morris was not in complete hiding. ![]() "I thought it might be a bit more negative., but 'I can’t believe you’ve not got a mullet' was a common response," he said. Thousands of people jumped on the bandwagon online trying to guess who the Secret Tory might be, and Morris admitted that he was not confident in how the news would be received. The personal trainer announced that he would be revealing his true identity towards the end of May, and anticipation has been brewing ever since. ![]() "But I also just like moving forward, and I’ve been doing this for four years now and just thought- now’s the time for a change." Speaking to WalesOnline he said: "There’s part of you which is like, you can tell loads of funny jokes where people say this is very funny, but they don’t know who you are and you want to take credit for that”, he explained. In real life Morris is a father, husband, personal trainer and aspiring sitcom writer. Read more: Personal trainer from Wales unmasked as man behind Secret Tory Twitter account Known for calling out the Conservative government, Morris speaks candidly on Twitter using satire to impersonate a Tory MP. What started as an attempt to keep people entertained in lockdown became a joke which was embraced by 200,000 twitter users following his every word. Henry Morris cleared the air this week when he admitted that he was the mastermind behind the twitter handle or the Secret Tory account.ĭespite rumours he was a well known celebrity pretending to be an anonymous Conservative, Morris is a personal trainer residing in Crymrych in west Wales. The man behind the Secret Tory Twitter account has revealed he wanted to hold people to account for doing "bad, incompetent or stupid" things. ![]()
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