Nadine Dorries resigns as MP with attack on Rishi Sunak

[LeftishBrit]

The former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has finally resigned as an MP – more than 10 weeks after announcing her intention to quit – with a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak.

In her resignation letter, the staunch Boris Johnson ally accused the prime minister of “demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy” against her.

The Conservative MP has faced intense pressure to formally resign, having previously insisted she would stay on until Mr Sunak’s government revealed documents on the decision to deny her a peerage in Mr Johnson’s honours list.


Her resignation will give Mr Sunak another headache, triggering a by-election in Mid Bedfordshire which could be held as soon as September, hot on the heels of painful losses for the Tories in Yorkshire and Somerset, despite managing to cling to Mr Johnson’s former seat in Uxbridge....


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nadine-dorries-resigns-mp-letter-b2399962.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IND_Breaking_News%20nadine&utm_term=IND_Breaking_Newsletter

[OnDoutside]

1. Farewell to utter trash, and don't let the door ...

[LeftishBrit]

2. Newsthump (our most accurate news source): Nadine Dorries' resignation letter in full

So I’m not getting the Damehood then? Is that what you’re saying? Well, in that case I have no choice but to resign as loudly and publicly as possible, in a desperate final attempt to take you with me.

I will never forgive you for your role in taking down my beloved Boris. How COULD you? That man was everything to me, and you couldn’t wait to jump ship and force him to resign. If it hadn’t been for you, and the whole lying to parliament and losing the confidence of his own MPs, he would still be here, and I would still be spending every cabinet meeting gazing longingly into his eyes. Now I have nothing more than numerous photos and the lifesize Boris pillow to keep me company. It’s not the same.

I am proud of my track record as an MP, going back to deserting my position in parliament to eat Ostrich anus on the nation’s televisions, to demonstrating my complete ineptitude as a culture secretary by repeatedly and publicly misunderstanding how Channel 4’s commercial model works. I am the modern Tory party personified, whereas you are nothing but a privileged posh boy.

No, not that sort of privileged posh boy, Boris is lovely. You’re the other sort. You know what I mean. Look in a mirror.

(More at link):

https://newsthump.com/2023/08/26/nadine-dorriess-resignation-letter-in-full/