The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

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HarperCollins has described Dorries’ book as a “seismic, fly-on-the-wall account of how the saviour of the Conservative party became a pariah” and will feature “unparalleled access, from multiple inside sources talking with astonishing candour”. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's press secretary stated that "It’s obviously unusual to have an MP say they will resign with immediate effect and for that not to take place" while Sunak himself later publicly stated that "I think people deserve to have an MP that represents them, wherever they are". On 9 June 2023, she announced that she was "standing down" as an MP "with immediate effect", rather than waiting for the next election, which would trigger a by-election in her constituency. William Wragg, the Tory PACAC chairman, asked the Cabinet Secretary on Wednesday if he was aware of “any rather forceful communications” sent by Ms Dorries “to senior civil servants” threatening to use “the platform of the Commons and indeed her own television programme to get to the bottom of why she hadn’t been given a peerage”.

The Bill drew criticism from healthcare and sex education professionals, questioning claims made during the Bill's reading. Thomas Duggins, "Adultery and the same-sex marriage bill" Archived 16 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, The Spectator (blog), 13 February 2013. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. Because the vacancy occurred so quickly and so close to D-day, the party provided my association with a shortlist of seventeen candidates, of which about five were women.For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. She gave an explanation of the statement to her local newspaper, in which she said that her whereabouts on her blog had been disguised, on police advice, because of unwanted attention. Tory MP William Wragg asked the Cabinet Secretary if he was aware of “any rather forceful communications” sent by Ms Dorries “to senior civil servants” about potentially using “the platform of the Commons and indeed her own television programme to get to the bottom of why she hadn’t been given a peerage? Ms Dorries was elected MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, although her decision to go on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here in 2012 led to her suspension from the parliamentary Conservative party.

And yet, just three years later, he was ousted by the same members who had once greeted his leadership so rapturously. In an interview with Mehdi Hasan in October 2012, Dorries said she favoured gay marriage, but only after Britain has left the European Convention on Human Rights. 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. Cabinet Secretary Simon Case confirmed that he had flagged communications between Ms Dorries and senior civil servants, sent after the Johnson loyalist was not named in the former prime minister’s resignation honours list, to the Commons Speaker and the Conservative chief whip.This decision was controversial as Rhodes had been labelled the "architect of apartheid" [113] because he passed laws in the Cape Colony that expropriated land from black Africans and effectively banned them from political participation. Leave-voting MP Nadine Dorries slams May's Brexit deal because UK won't have seats in European parliament". The ex-culture secretary — already a bestselling author — has written ‘the Plot’, which, according to a Harper Collins release, will tell the “seismic, untold story of how the most charismatic politician of his generation was driven from office. In the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, "In God's Name", Dorries was asked how closely she worked with Williams and Dorries replied, "Closely? After school she trained as a nurse and her profession frequently informed the political issues she took up - from Group B Strep testing for pregnant women to pushing for the time limit on abortions to be reduced.

While Labour’s Dawn Butler queried on Twitter how Dorries has time to be an author, given that she’s an MP, the new culture secretary is showing no signs of slowing down. Allies of Rishi Sunak were braced for the release to affect the party conference, which begins three days later. On 4 May 2011, Dorries proposed a bill to require that sex education in schools should include content promoting abstinence to girls aged 13–16, which was presented as teaching them "how to say no".She reportedly said to him: "We are here to dispel some of the myths about Equatorial Guinea and also with humility to offer you help to avoid the mistakes we have made. Dorries's amendment was defeated by 332 votes to 190, with a separate 22-week limit opposed by 304 votes to 233.