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Which Tory MPs don’t call themselves Conservative online?

Are Tory MPs actually proud to be Tories? Following recent defections from the party and the ever-present backdrop of Brexit in-fighting, it’s a question being heard more and more around Westminster. There are mutterings of parties within parties and the Independent Group has said it expects another wave of defections, highlighting just how low Conservative morale has become.

In a bid to track how Conservatives feel about their own party at the moment, Mr S has been through the Twitter accounts of every Tory MP to see who is still showing their Conservative credentials online and who is shrouding their social media allegiance in ambiguity.

Interestingly, out of the 263 Conservative MPs on Twitter, only 143 have any mention of their party at all.

MPs who mention the Conservative Party in their biography or photo:

Lucy Allan

Stuart Agnew

Kemi Badenoch

Steve Barclay

Guto Bebb

Bob Blackman

Nick Boles

Andrew Bowie

Ben Bradley

Andrew Bridgen

Robert Buckland

Alex Burghart

Maria Caulfield

Rehman Chishti

Colin Clark

Simon Clarke

James Cleverly

Therese Coffey

Alberto Costa

Robert Courts

Geoffrey Cox

Stephen Crabb

Tracey Crouch

David Davies

Glyn Davies

Mims Davies

Jonathan Djanogly

Leo Docherty

Michelle Donelan

Steve Double

Jackie Doyle-Price

James Duddridge

David Duguid

Philip Dunne

Michael Ellis

Tobias Ellwood

Vicky Ford

George Freeman

Nusrat Ghani

John Glen

Helen Grant

James Gray

Kirstene Hair

Rob Halfon

Greg Hands

Richard Harrington

Rebecca Harris

Simon Hart

Chris Heaton-Harris

Simon Hoare

Eddie Hughes

Margot James

Ranil Jayawardena

Caroline Johnson

David Jones

Stephen Kerr

Julian Knight

Eleanor Laing

Pauline Latham

Brandon Lewis

Julia Lopez

Tim Loughton

Craig MacKinlay

Kit Malthouse

Theresa May

Paul Maynard

Stephen Metcalfe

Nigel Mills

Anne Milton

Nicky Morgan

David Morris

James Morris

David Mundell

Sheryll Murray

Guy Opperman

Priti Patel

Owen Paterson

Chris Philp

Tom Pursglove

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Mary Robinson

Douglas Ross

Lee Rowley

Alec Shelbrooke

Keith Simpson

Chris Skidmore

Mark Spencer

John Stevenson

Desmond Swayne

Hugo Swire

Robert Syms

Ross Thomson

Kelly Tollhurst

Justin Tomlinson

Craig Tracey

Liz Truss

Ed Vaizey

Robin Walker

Matt Warman

Helen Whately

Craig Whittaker

John Whittingdale

Bill Wiggin

MPs who don’t mention the Conservative Party:

Nigel Adams

Adam Afriyie

Peter Aldous

David Amess

Richard Bacon

Steve Baker

Harriet Baldwin

Richard Benyon

Jake Berry

Crispin Blunt

Peter Bone

Peter Bottomley

Suella Braverman

Steve Brine

James Brokenshire

Conor Burns

Alistair Burt

Alun Cairns

James Cartlidge

Bill Cash

Alex Chalk

Jo Churchill

Greg Clark

Damian Collins

Philip Davies

David Davis

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