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Louise Mensch | |
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.jpeg) Mensch in May 2015 | |
| Member of Parliament for Corby | |
| In office 6 May 2010 – 29 August 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Phil Hope |
| Succeeded by | Andy Sawford |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Louise Daphne Bagshawe 28 June 1971 London, England |
| Political party | Republican (US) (2017–2019)[1] |
| Other political affiliations | Conservative (UK) (before 1996, 1997–present) Labour (UK) (1996–1997) |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Tilly Bagshawe (sister) |
| Residence(s) | New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Louise Daphne Mensch (née Bagshawe; born 28 June 1971) is a British blogger, novelist, and former Conservative Member of Parliament. In the 1990s she became known as a writer of chick lit novels under her maiden name Louise Bagshawe. She was elected Conservative MP for Corby at the 2010 UK general election.[2]
Mensch resigned as an MP in August 2012 to move to New York City to live with her second husband, American music manager Peter Mensch. She began working for News Corp in 2014, and co-launched its Heat Street website in February 2016. Since leaving Heat Street in December 2016, she has published primarily on her blog Patribotics, which she launched in January 2017, and her Twitter account. She left News Corp entirely in March 2017.
Mensch and Heat Street have since courted controversy by promoting unverified claims, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories about the Trump administration and its ties to the Russian Federation.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Zack Beauchamp, a reporter for Vox who has written at length about Mensch, compared the conspiratorial nature of her output to that of Alex Jones, saying "I would say the closest analog would be Infowars".[10] BuzzFeed called Mensch an "anti-Russian influence crusader" and one of a number of "anti-Trump public figures [who] share unreliable information".[11]
- ^ Louise Mensch [@LouiseMensch] (28 March 2017). "I'm a Republican. Save our party. Can you not see you are in history, and you are Benedict Arnold. Sign. https://patribotics.blog/2017/03/28/kushner-and-trump-taped-at-secret-trump-tower-meetings-with-russians/" (Tweet). Retrieved 13 March 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Louise Mensch to quit as an MP, triggering Corby by-election". BBC News. 6 August 2012.
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- ^ "Why Is A Top Harvard Law Professor Sharing Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theories?". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Stop promoting liberal conspiracy theories on Twitter". The New Republic. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ Swaine, Jon (28 August 2017). "Lurid Trump allegations made by Louise Mensch and co-writer came from hoaxer". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ^ Weisberg, Jacob; Beauchamp, Zack (2 June 2017). "Louise Mensch, Claude Taylor, and conspiracy theories on the left". Slate. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ^ Taibbi, Matt (3 April 2017). "Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 29 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2017.