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Clogs and shawls queen … the new secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA By 2022, Dorries had published 16 books and announced a series of six more with publisher Head of Zeus. [145] Nadine Vanessa Dorries ( née Bargery; born 21 May 1957) is a British author and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2021 to 2022. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Bedfordshire from 2005 to 2023 for the Conservative Party. The Bill drew criticism from healthcare and sex education professionals, questioning claims made during the Bill's reading. [178] Labour MP Chris Bryant described the Bill as being "the daftest piece of legislation I have seen". [179]

a b Mulholland, Hélène (6 November 2012). "Tory party suspends Nadine Dorries". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Nadine Dorries has 'abandoned' Mid Bedfordshire voters - council". BBC News. 21 August 2023 . Retrieved 27 August 2023.a b Anthony, Andrew (31 October 2021). " 'She often speaks without thinking': Nadine Dorries, our new minister for culture wars". The Guardian]. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021 . Retrieved 31 October 2021. From 1978 to 1981, Dorries was a nurse in Warrington and Liverpool according to a 2009 report. [12] Her CV when she was a parliamentary candidate in 2001 stated Liverpool and London as places where she worked as a nurse. [11] She left the Liverpool area after she married mining engineer Paul Dorries. MPs' expenses surpass pre-scandal levels as 150 give jobs to family". The Telegraph. 13 September 2013. Archived from the original on 17 June 2018 . Retrieved 3 April 2018. On 27 October 2010, Dorries partially retracted her 70% fiction claim, posting a blog entry which stated that "It also only takes any individual with a smattering of intelligence to see that everything on the blog is accurate, because it is largely a record of real time events. It was only ever the perception of where I was on any particular day which was disguised." [63] When Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, Dorries was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health at the Department of Health and Social Care. [94] She was promoted in May 2020 to the ministerial rank of Minister of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health. [95]

The series began on 11 November 2012, but on 21 November, Dorries became the first contestant to be voted off the show. [73] [74] On 27 November Dorries met Sir George Young, who asked her to rebuild her relationship with the party. She then sat as an independent MP, but continued to deny the whip had been withdrawn, stating it had merely been suspended. [75] Adu, Aletha; Allegretti, Aubrey (23 August 2023). "Nadine Dorries says she is still 'working daily' as MP amid calls for her to quit". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 August 2023. Mrs Dorries, who has three teenage children, easily beat her 11 rivals and won the plum safe seat on the first ballot at the selection this weekend. Party officials were thrilled that the seat has gone to a woman. Previously, only two women had been selected in the 17 safe seats where sitting MPs have retired. Senior party figures had made clear to local dignitaries that they would like the seat to go to a woman and presented the constituency with a shortlist of seven women and five men to underline the point. [20] Dorries was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council on 20 September 2021 at Balmoral Castle. [207] This gives her the honorific prefix " The Right Honourable". [208] AwardsPrior to John Bercow's election as Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2009, Dorries accused him of opportunism and disloyalty to the Conservative Party. She described his election as "a two-fingered salute to the British people from Labour MPs, and to the Conservative Party". [192] After Bercow's wife, Sally, was approved as a Labour parliamentary candidate and gave an interview about her personal life, Dorries argued that the Bercows were damaging the historic respect accorded to the office of speaker. [193] Badshah, Nadeem (31 August 2023). "Nadine Dorries' book on Boris Johnson's downfall delayed due to legal issues". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 6 September 2023. On 13 January 2011, it was reported by the Daily Mirror that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses. Three days later, The Sunday Times reported that police had since handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration. [55] In February 2013, it was reported that Dorries was being investigated by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority over her expenses, although no specific details were given at this time. [56] Robbins, Martin (26 June 2010). "Conservatives put Dumb and Dumber on the health select committee". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016 . Retrieved 12 December 2016. In August 2018, Boris Johnson was criticised for a column that he had written in The Daily Telegraph. As part of an article discussing the introduction of a burka ban in Denmark, Johnson said that Muslim women who wore burkas "look like letter boxes" and the garment gave them the appearance of "bank robbers", although the point of the article was to condemn governments who tell "a free-born adult woman what she may or may not wear, in a public place, when she is simply minding her own business". Dorries, however, said that Johnson "did not go far enough", saying the burka should have no place in Britain and it was "shameful that countries like France and Denmark are way ahead of us on this". [190] On 7 August 2018, Dorries tweeted "No woman in a liberal, progressive society should be forced to cover up her beauty or her bruises." [191] Speaker John Bercow

James MacIntyre (7 January 2010). "Speaker cornered". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 10 January 2010 . Retrieved 1 February 2010. Another has “vivid, twinkling blue eyes, the kind that can only come from Irish roots”. A third “embodied everything everyone knows to be true of an Irishman. He was as bold as brass, full of the blarney and didn’t know the meaning of the word shy.”

During the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, Dorries was reported as considering herself as a candidate, [110] but ultimately did not stand and instead endorsed Liz Truss. [111] Beatrice and Lydia Jolly are sisters and about to get married. Lydia is deeply in love with her future husband. Beatrice most definitely is not. She's not even sure why she accepted Sebastian Roscow - except she didn't want to be left as the spinster sister looking after their beloved father.