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Louise Mensch
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
(1971-06-28) 28 June 1971 (age 52) London, England
Political party
Republican (US) (2017–2019)[1]
Other political affiliations
Conservative (UK) (before 1996, 1997–present) Labour (UK) (1996–1997)
Spouses
Anthony LoCicero
(m. 2000; div. 2009)
Peter Mensch
(m. 2011; div. 2019)
Children
4
Relatives
Tilly Bagshawe (sister)
Residence(s)
New York City, U.S.
Alma mater
Christ Church, Oxford
Louise Daphne Mensch (néeBagshawe; 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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^Swaine, Jon (16 May 2017). "New fake news dilemma: sites publish real scoops amid mess of false reports". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
^"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.
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conspiracy theories by LouiseMensch; MacDonald filed a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center against Mensch for cyber stalking and...
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general election. Following the resignation of incumbent Conservative LouiseMensch in 2012, he won Corby at the subsequent by-election which became the...
Minister". ITV News. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2022. Mensch, Louise [@LouiseMensch] (1 July 2016). "My money is on @andrealeadsom as PM. And a...
analyst and commentator, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard LouiseMensch, former Conservative British Member of Parliament for Corby New Hampshire...
2016 (2016-06-24) 1.47 394 22 Gary Johnson, Jim Gaffigan, Barbara Lee, Ari Melber, LouiseMensch July 1, 2016 (2016-07-01) 1.34 395 23 Frank Luntz, Viggo Mortensen,...
Graham Linehan 6–7 4.47m 42x02 21 October 2011 Alexander Armstrong LouiseMensch MP Danny Baker 6–7 4.63m 42x03 28 October 2011 Lee Mack Victoria Derbyshire...
been given which repeated speculations made by conspiracy theorist LouiseMensch or on a Bret Baier interview, both of which occurred the day prior to...
1829) Philip May (husband of UK Prime Minister): President (TT 1979) LouiseMensch (UK Member of Parliament): Secretary (1991?) Viscount Monckton (UK Cabinet...
Huffington Post, 28 May 2013 Musa Okwonga "Rod Liddle, 'black savages', and LouiseMensch", The Independent, 31 May 2013 William Turvill "Spectator's Rod Liddle...
to writer Louise Bagshawe, the Conservative Party candidate, who became LouiseMensch after her marriage the following year. In 2012, Mensch resigned as...
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