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 death of Conservative activist Elliot 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