He went to the University of Manchester to study comparative religion, moving to London in his late 20s, “because Ellie was there”. Henry Morris couldn’t be further from the Westminster bubble, but for years he has lampooned MPs online. Finally, though, he decided that remaining anonymous was contributing to a fake news environment and he should out himself.

Biography: Henry Morris is a personal trainer and rave promoter, and author of the infamous Diary of a Secret Tory MP. From Brexit to Covid, parties to pig culling, the Conservative government has lurched from crisis to crisis. 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.

He is still personal training (remotely), chopping logs, learning Welsh and working on a sitcom idea. A school friend, Benjamin Harvey, collaborates on the videos “and ended up tweeting it on Ellie’s due date. I kept thinking: ‘You’re sitting in the House of Lords and I can run rings around you in an argument if I have to. Morris started masquerading, too, as the Papua New Guinea Courier’s UK correspondent, and those columns – an outsider’s dry amusement cut with the howling indignation of the real UK citizen having to live through this clown show – are some of my favourite chronicles of our dark times. The 2019 Conservative MPs are self-interested, they’re corrupt, they’re mean-spirited, largely stupid and, as far as I can tell, filling their helicopters and firing up the shredders before they get booted out at the next election.

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. I know exactly what he means: there is a perception of media and political elites as operating on a higher plane, and it’s absolutely warped, but I’m not sure it’s about London – isn’t it about class? 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.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 Secret Tory reached the end of its natural life, but there is more to come, I feel certain; Morris is not a man who goes home before he has achieved his objective. The bestselling Diary of a Secret Tory MP lifts the lid on one of the biggest periods of upheaval in recent memory (certainly since Nick Clegg broke George Osbourne's printer at the treasury) - the last twelve months of British politics. View image in fullscreen ‘Everyone seems to be preoccupied with my mullet’ … Morris at his home in Wales. 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.