It began with someone called Mark Wallace. In July last year, he wrote a piece for ConservativeHome with the headline “The Electoral Commission didn’t stop what was happening in Tower Hamlets. Is it really capable of thwarting Putin?”
A month later, he wrote his follow-up: “The Electoral Commission is not fit for its crucial purpose”.
Wallace is the editor of ConservativeHome, the unofficial homepage of Conservatism in the UK. He is also the former campaign director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, a right wing lobby group based at 55 Tufton Street, which refuses to reveal who funds it.
