Nadine Dorries announces resignation and launches scathing attack on Rishi Sunak
Nadine Dorries has finally resigned from her House of Commons seat while launching a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak’s record.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, the former Cabinet Minister accuses Mr Sunak of behaving irresponsibly and of betraying Tory principles, putting her personal safety at risk by “whipping up a public frenzy” against her.
She revealed that the police had visited her home last week to warn her about a threat to her personal security.
Ms Dorries, 66, said in June that she would leave her Mid-Bedfordshire seat with “immediate effect” but had failed to do so until now.
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She says she first informed Cabinet Secretary Simon Case of her intention to resign in July 2022.
She added she has since been under sustained pressure from colleagues not to inflict a further damaging by-election on the party as it languishes in the polls.
The long-time ally of Boris Johnson shared her resignation on June 9, but then delayed her departure while she was investigating whether Mr Sunak had intervened to block her nomination to the House of Lords.
Ms Dorries wrote: “What exactly has been done or have you achieved? You hold the office of Prime Minister unelected, without a single vote, not even from your own MPs.
“You have no mandate from the people, and the Government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?”
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Elsewhere in the letter she accused Sunak of abandoning “the fundamental principles of Conservatism” and said: “History will not judge you kindly.”
She added: “The clearly orchestrated and almost daily personal attacks demonstrate the pitifully low level your Government has descended to.”
In another attack on his record, she said the country has been “run by a Zombie parliament” since Sunak took office.
“You have no mandate from the people and the Government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?”
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Ms Dorries has been attacked by politicians from both sides of the Commons and the public for her hesitating on her resignation for more than 10 weeks.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury John Glen told Times Radio: “People are bewildered. She made a decision, she said she was going to resign immediately and then she hasn’t done.
“It’s deeply frustrating. I think most people and most of my colleagues would expect her to get on with it now, make good on the pledge that she made in June and we can have a by-election and the people of Mid Bedfordshire can have a new Member of Parliament.”
Today’s announcement means a by-election will be held in Dorries’s constituency within weeks.
If Labour overturns the seat’s 24,664 majority, it would represent the largest collapse in support for the Tories in by-election history.
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