Mark Wallace

Mark Edwin Wallace (born 20 August 1984) is a British journalist, newspaper columnist and political activist. He is Chief Executive of the website ConservativeHome, and is a former Campaign Director of the TaxPayers' Alliance. Early life Wallace grew up in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, and was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne. He studied Archaeology at St Chad's College, Durham University. After graduating, he worked on archaeological excavations at Bamburgh Castle. His mother Judith Wallace is a Conservative Party councillor on North Tyneside Council. Political campaigning In 2005, Wallace was appointed Campaign Manager of The Freedom Association (TFA), a libertarian and Eurosceptic pressure group. In the autumn of the same year he was stopped and filmed by Sussex Police under counter-terrorism powers while protesting against the proposed introduction of Identity Cards outside the Labour Party conference. Wallace co-founded Better Off Out, a cross-party campaign calling for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, in April 2006. He continues to sit on the Association's Council and Management Committee.