Mark Clarke (politician)
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| Born | June 1977 Hounslow, London, U.K. |
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| Occupation | Marketing Consultant and Political Activist |
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| Spouse(s) | Sarah Clarke |
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Mark Clarke, born in June 1977, is a former UK Conservative Party parliamentary candidate that has been referred to as the Tatler Tory, who is also former Director of the Young Britons' Foundation, former Chairman of Conservative Future, and ex-Director of the since-disbanded Road Trip electioneering organisation that bussed Conservative Party activists to marginal seats during the 2015 general election. Clarke was suspended from the Party on 24 September 2015, following the suicide of Conservative activist Elliott Alston Raymond Johnson who had named Clarke as having bullied him. A series of serious accusations subsequently appeared in several national newspapers about Clarke’s alleged misconduct and in November 2015 he was finally expelled and banned for life from representing or joining the Conservative Party again. His alleged misconduct within the Conservative Party led to national newspaper coverage about the extent to which senior figures in the Party knew about complaints regarding his actions, coverage that subsequently led to the resignation of Grant Shapps, a government minister.
Clarke was born in June 1977, to Madeline Clarke, and a father, Denis (last name unknown).
He is a great nephew of Dominica's first female Prime Minister, Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, grandson of Bertie Clarke, a Barbados-born member of the West Indies Cricket Team. Bertie Clarke came to Britain in 1939 "to play three tests against England," but could not return home because of the outbreak of World War II; Clark the grandfather trained as a GP, and had a daughter, Madeline, who would become Mark Clark's mother. The couple, Denis and Madeline, split up when Mark was young, and details of his early life are "sparse"; he has described his father as being absentee, and that his upbringing included time on a council estate in Hounslow, West London.
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