He’s not the messiah, nor a naughty boy, or even an actual politician. The man posing as a secret Conservative MP has unmasked himself as a personal trainer from Yorkshire.
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.
“Who keeps putting the 50ps in Eamonn Holmes? 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”.
Mr Morris made the announcement at 9am on Wednesday after tweeting that he would be unveiling his true self to the supporters he has amassed since 2019.
Who is the Secret Tory?
— THE SECRET TORY - OBE 🇬🇧 (@secrettory12) May 31, 2023
All is revealed in...
The Tories! pic.twitter.com/Wt3WL9X8Kt
“I’m the Henry Morris who has been amateurishly lampooning his [Michael Gove’s] party’s proto-fascist antics,” he said in his announcement video.
Mr Morris is an ultra-marathon runner who now lives in Wales and puts on amateur Shakespeare productions. The reveal of his identity follows the release of his book The Diary of a Secret Tory MP: Dodgy Dispatches from the Heart of Westminster.
Given how the account trolled and satirised the Conservative Party, few expected The Secret Tory to actually be an MP but some were left disappointed.
One wrote: “Thanks for making my morning worse than it was.”
The truth is beginning to seep out. https://t.co/nfstJiUt9m
— THE SECRET TORY - OBE 🇬🇧 (@secrettory12) May 31, 2023
Another tweeted: “So you have been lying the whole time?”
“To be fair - @secrettory12 does look like an MP. Just one from a suburb of a major Australian city…” one added.
Mr Morris had the final word, adding: “Trending above Peter Andre and Lovejoy. If it’s the antiques dealer, then my work here is done.”
Now the big reveal has been made, it is unclear if Mr Morris intends to go on parodying the Conservative Party but it is clear that, if he did stop, he would disappoint thousands of fans.
“I inadvertently started parodying Mark Francois at the height of Brexit, when I was bored between training clients in my gym,” he told BBC News.
“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.”
