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[[Florence Heath]] is a co-founder of the [[Taxpayers' Alliance]] with her husband [[Matthew Elliott]]. Her father [[Alexander Heath]] is also a director of the TPA.<ref>Robert Booth, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/09/taxpayers-alliance-conservative-pressure-group Who is behind the Taxpayers Alliance], ''The Guardian'', 9-October-2009, Accessed 24-January-2011</ref>  
 
[[Florence Heath]] is a co-founder of the [[Taxpayers' Alliance]] with her husband [[Matthew Elliott]]. Her father [[Alexander Heath]] is also a director of the TPA.<ref>Robert Booth, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/09/taxpayers-alliance-conservative-pressure-group Who is behind the Taxpayers Alliance], ''The Guardian'', 9-October-2009, Accessed 24-January-2011</ref>  
  
==History==
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Heath joined the Conservative Party when she was 18, in her final year she argued that:
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:Even since I joined the Conservative Party, the attitude to Tories has changed enormously...Whereas before people would saw 'Eugh, you're a Tory', now people say 'Oh, you're a Tory, why?' People are a lot more interested and a lot more questioning. I don't know many people who fit into the Tory Boy image any more.<ref>David Paul and Jane Clinton, FOCUS AFTER THE BLAIR BABE COMES THE TORY TOTTY. JUST FORGET THE TWINSET; CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, IAIN? NOW GIRL POWER'S MAKING THE TORIES COOL, Sunday Express, 20-July-2003</ref>
  
 
In 2001 Heath was a co-signatory of a letter offering support for [[Iain Duncan Smith]]'s leadership bid, the letter argued that 'we sincerely believe that only Iain Duncan Smith could be confident of successfully leading a united party forward'.<ref>Pg 20, Students Back Duncan Smith, ''Sunday Telegraph'', 26-August-2001</ref> She signed the letter in her capacity as the chairman of the Imperial College Conservatives.<ref>Florence Heath, LETTER: GIBRALTAR'S CHOICE, ''The Independent'', 9-November-2002</ref>
 
In 2001 Heath was a co-signatory of a letter offering support for [[Iain Duncan Smith]]'s leadership bid, the letter argued that 'we sincerely believe that only Iain Duncan Smith could be confident of successfully leading a united party forward'.<ref>Pg 20, Students Back Duncan Smith, ''Sunday Telegraph'', 26-August-2001</ref> She signed the letter in her capacity as the chairman of the Imperial College Conservatives.<ref>Florence Heath, LETTER: GIBRALTAR'S CHOICE, ''The Independent'', 9-November-2002</ref>

Revision as of 23:43, 11 April 2011

Florence Heath is a co-founder of the Taxpayers' Alliance with her husband Matthew Elliott. Her father Alexander Heath is also a director of the TPA.[1]


Heath joined the Conservative Party when she was 18, in her final year she argued that:

Even since I joined the Conservative Party, the attitude to Tories has changed enormously...Whereas before people would saw 'Eugh, you're a Tory', now people say 'Oh, you're a Tory, why?' People are a lot more interested and a lot more questioning. I don't know many people who fit into the Tory Boy image any more.[2]

In 2001 Heath was a co-signatory of a letter offering support for Iain Duncan Smith's leadership bid, the letter argued that 'we sincerely believe that only Iain Duncan Smith could be confident of successfully leading a united party forward'.[3] She signed the letter in her capacity as the chairman of the Imperial College Conservatives.[4]

Notes

  1. Robert Booth, Who is behind the Taxpayers Alliance, The Guardian, 9-October-2009, Accessed 24-January-2011
  2. David Paul and Jane Clinton, FOCUS AFTER THE BLAIR BABE COMES THE TORY TOTTY. JUST FORGET THE TWINSET; CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, IAIN? NOW GIRL POWER'S MAKING THE TORIES COOL, Sunday Express, 20-July-2003
  3. Pg 20, Students Back Duncan Smith, Sunday Telegraph, 26-August-2001
  4. Florence Heath, LETTER: GIBRALTAR'S CHOICE, The Independent, 9-November-2002