Dorries claims PM is being ‘played’ as party ‘grooming’ Kemi Badenoch to takeover
Boris Johnson has labelled the prime minister a “stooge” in an interview for Nadine Dorries’ new book The Plot, which is released today. Dorries has also suggested that the secretive cabal she has identified in her new book is “grooming” Kemi Badenoch to be a future party leader. Referring to Dougie Smith, a No 10 […]
Will Nadine Dorries spoil Rishi Sunak’s big week?
The once lingering member for Mid Bedfordshire may have left parliament, but her presence is still very much felt in SW1. Nadine Dorries’ latest book, entitled The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, was initially set to be published on 28th September, just three days before the beginning of Conservative Party Conference. But owing […]
Nadine Dorries accuses Big Tech of manipulating algorithms to ‘nudge opinion ever leftwards’
Nadine Dorries has accused “Big Tech” of manipulating algorithms to “nudge opinion ever leftwards” and ensuring the “content people read online is Left-leaning”. The former culture secretary said the revelation came as she googled her name and surveyed the results. She described her findings as “alarming”. Relaying a story from her time as culture secretary […]
What’s at stake in the Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections?
On 9 June 2023, Nadine Dorries announced that she was standing down from her Mid Bedfordshire seat “with immediate effect”. In the end, it took a further 78 days for the former culture secretary and Boris Johnson loyalist to make good on her word, extending her boycott of the House of Commons chamber to 414 […]
Dorries’ diatribe shows Sunak is doomed, but not for the reason she thinks
Why was Nadine Dorries’ 1,800-word resignation statement so long? The answer, simply, is because it had so much to do. First and most pertinently, it had to righteously rubbish Rishi Sunak’s approach to government. But elsewhere, Dorries dedicated space for her own obituary as a former culture secretary dishonourably denied a place in the Lords; […]
‘The government is adrift’ – Nadine Dorries’ scathing resignation statement in full
Nadine Dorries has resigned from her House of Commons seat two months after promising to quit with “immediate” effect. You can read the Mid Bedfordshire MP’s full resignation letter below in full: Dear Prime Minister, It has been the greatest honour and privilege of my life to have served the good people of Mid Bedfordshire […]
The dilemma facing Rishi Sunak over Nadine Dorries
Nadine Dorries, the lingering member for Mid Bedfordshire, is on a mission. 77 days after she announced her resignation with “immediate effect” in protest at being left off Boris Johnson’s resignations honours list, she continues to investigate the terms of her spurning. It is not yet clear whether the former culture secretary’s amateur sleuthing has […]
Nadine Dorries insists she is still ‘working daily’ for her constituents
Nadine Dorries has claimed she is still “working daily” for her constituents after a senior Conservative MP urged Rishi Sunak to strip her of the party whip. Caroline Nokes, who chairs the women and equalities select committee, told the prime minister to sack the former culture secretary as a Conservative MP, accusing her of “making a mockery” […]
Plan to oust ‘absentee MP’ Nadine Dorries will be ‘ready’ by parliament’s return in September
EXCLUSIVE: A senior Labour MP’s plan to trigger a by-election in former culture secretary Nadine Dorries’ Mid-Bedfordshire constituency will be “ready” by the time parliament rises from recess in September. Sir Chris Bryant, who chairs the House of Commons Standards and privileges committee, has detailed plans to reinstate an 1801 rule to prevent MPs from […]
Can Chris Bryant save Westminster from itself (and Nadine Dorries)?
Who would save Westminster if not Chris Bryant? The newly-knighted standards committee chair is on a crusade to clean up politics, seizing on sleaze and railing against those who chose to defend it. Now the keeper of parliament’s rulebook has penned an account of his own — one which weaves together his personnel critique of […]
