Michael Keith Smith (1953 – 3 July 2010),[1] was the founder-chairman of the Conservative Democratic Alliance, a British right-wing pressure group.
In response to the Conservative Party's treatment of the Monday Club and the Club's lack of will to fight it, Smith founded, in 2001, the Conservative Democratic Alliance (CDA), a new traditional Tory pressure-group which immediately targeted Oliver Letwin's seat, distributing leaflets saying that he was not a real Tory.
Duncan Smith then reportedly said that he had "plans to make the Conservative Democratic Alliance a proscribed organisation, which would ban party members from belonging to it.
[12][13] Smith had suffered from depression and mental health issues caused by the onset of Type 2 diabetes.
He was admitted to a psychiatric unit after stabbing himself on 24 June 2010 and killed himself by jumping from the keep of Portchester Castle, with the Assistant Coroner reaching a verdict of suicide.