The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. According to an interview with The Times in 2014, Dorries's parents divorced during her adolescence. In 1987 she founded Company Kids Ltd, [14] which provided child day-care services for working parents. The newspaper also queried hotel bills, including one for 'Mr N Dorries': these had been disallowed by the Fees Office and Dorries said they were submitted by mistake. It will be published in September, just days before the Conservative Party conference in a move to cause the maximum political embarrassment for the Prime Minister.

The privileges committee ultimately triggered Mr Johnson’s resignation from Parliament in protest at its recommendation that he should face a lengthy suspension for misleading the Commons.The former prime minister’s staunch ally claims to have uncovered a “fault line” within the Conservative Party through conversations with cabinet ministers, civil servants and party officials which form the basis of her account. Dorries's amendment was defeated by 332 votes to 190, with a separate 22-week limit opposed by 304 votes to 233. Nadine Dorries has written a book titled The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson, due to be published in September days before the Tory Party conference. Shortly after regaining the whip, Dorries floated the idea of joint Conservative–UKIP candidates at the next general election in 2015, with herself as such a candidate. 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.

On 7 August 2018, Dorries tweeted "No woman in a liberal, progressive society should be forced to cover up her beauty or her bruises. In 2023 it emerged that Dorries was writing a book intended to cover the downfall of Boris Johnson, titled The Plot. She has since written the Four Streets series, set in a “tight-knit Irish Catholic community” in 1950s Liverpool where the villain is an abusive Catholic priest; the Lovely Lane series, in which “five very different girls are arriving at the nurses’ home in Lovely Lane, Liverpool, to start their training” in 1950s Liverpool; and the Tarabeg series, which moves between a small village on the west coast of Ireland, and Liverpool. Adam Humphrey, HarperNonFiction publisher, said: “Nadine’s unique vantage point, unparalleled access to sources, and innate storytelling ability will provide readers of The Plot with a rare opportunity to walk the corridors of power and understand the behind-the-scenes machinations of Westminster.In an exchange with Iain Dale around the same time, she speculated that the issue could cost her party four million votes at the next general election. The man, who is now dead, showed her a Playboy magazine as well as photos of him and his wife having sex, the Mid Bedfordshire MP told the newspaper. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. On 27 November Dorries met Sir George Young, who asked her to rebuild her relationship with the party. 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.

She said there was no disconnect between this view and her previous opinions that "left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy". The privatisation plans were later abandoned by her immediate successor Michelle Donelan, being seen by some as confirmation that privatisation had been "motivated by political opposition to Channel 4’s output rather than a sound business case".

On 13 January 2011, it was reported by the Daily Mirror that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses.

The Sexual Abstinence Bill was set for second reading on 20 January 2012 (Bill 185), [180] after she was granted leave to introduce the Bill on a vote of 67 to 61 on 4 May 2011. 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. Archived 11 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News, 6 May 2012; transcript from Andrew Sparrow, "Nadine Dorries dismissed as serial rebel over resignation comments". Dorries says she witnessed "botched" abortions on two occasions, [13] [150] an experience that influenced her campaign to lower the point during a pregnancy at which an abortion can be performed. On 15 September 2021, Dorries was promoted as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport following Oliver Dowden's appointment as Conservative Party Co-chairman.Dorries — a staunch Johnson supporter who was recently criticized for attacking a cross-party Commons committee investigating the former prime minister — sees it differently. Other Conservatives objected to her decision and her constituents were "overwhelmingly negative" on local radio. During her tenure as Secretary of State, Dorries attempted to push through the privatisation of Channel 4.