Louise Daphne Mensch (née Bagshawe; born 28 June 1971) is a British blogger and former Conservative Member of Parliament. After a period working public relations for the music industry in the early 1990s, she became known, as Louise Bagshawe, as a writer of "chick-lit" novels. She was elected Conservative MP for Corby in the 2010 UK general election, but resigned from Parliament in August 2012 to move to New York City to live with her second husband, American music manager Peter Mensch. In 2014, she began working for News Corporation, and co-launched its Heat Street website in February 2016. Since leaving Heat Street in mid-December 2016, she has published primarily on her blog Patribotics, which she launched in January 2017, and her Twitter account. She left News Corp entirely in March 2017. Mensch, as well as her website Heat Street, has published multiple unverified claims, and promoted hoaxes and conspiracy theories about the Trump administration and its ties to the Russian Federation, leading her to be labeled a conspiracy theorist.
