Inside the TPA

Patrick Barkham of the Guardian answers the question Who are the TaxPayers' Alliance?:

There are about 30 million taxpayers, yet the "alliance" that says it speaks for us all was created by three people, now with seven full-time staff. The three founders, Andrew Allum, a former Conservative councillor, Florence Heath, a geologist and former Young Conservative, and Matthew Elliott, co-founder and former Tory researcher, are hardly representative.

Barkham reckons the organisation gets mentioned frequently in newspapers because it's organised and committed. Nothing to do with the right-wing slant in the press, then. Opportunity missed, Guardian.