Nadine Dorries Publicizes She Is Standing Down As A Tory MP

Former Cupboard minister Nadine Dorries (Alamy)

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Dorries, a serious ally of former prime minister Boris Johnon, mentioned after “a lot soul-searching” she had determined to not contest her Mid Bedfordshire seat on the subsequent common election.

“I really like my constituents and I’ve beloved serving them – it has been such an honour for the very best a part of 20 years of my life,” mentioned the previous tradition secretary.

Dorries made the announcement throughout the newest episode of Friday Night time with Nadine, the present that she presents on Discuss TV, which might be aired tomorrow evening.

Dorries has been a vocal critic of the transfer by Tory MPs to take away Johnson from 10 Downing Road final yr and has publicly mentioned he needs to be reinstalled as Prime Minister.

She has additionally lambasted the regime of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on a number of events.

Saying her plan to face down, Dorries launched one other assault on the Prime Minister and his backers, saying the Conservative social gathering faces a “terminal” defeat on the subsequent common election, with the Tories “polling worse now than in 1997 after they have been thrashed by Labour”.

Dorries mentioned: “The elite, the fake political intellectuals, you recognize who I’m speaking about – those that consider they know higher than anybody else, wager every part on a Rishi bounce.

“However it by no means got here and it was by no means going to.

“The social gathering was 5 factors behind on the day Boris was ousted. That was a ballot deficit that might have burnt away like a summer time’s mist on a morning garden within the warmth of a common election marketing campaign.

“At this time it’s 24 factors behind. And that, my mates, could possibly be described as terminal. It leaves the social gathering boxed right into a nook with no exit route.”

She added that the Conservative MPs who eliminated Johnson as Tory chief and Prime Minister final summer time have been already asking “who subsequent?” and accused them of a “lack of cohesion… infighting and infrequently the sheer stupidity”.

Dorries is the nineteenth Conservative MP to announce they’re standing down forward of the following common election, which is anticipated to happen a while subsequent yr.

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