Nadine Dorries is no longer an MP and it has been a LONG time coming.
Ms Dorries first announced she was quitting Parliament in June after she found out she would not be getting a bump up to the House of Lords.
Local councillors in her Bedfordshire constituency called on her to go and a lot of people pointed out she hadn’t spoken in the Commons since leaving government last year.
It took 81 days for her be officially out of post after rousing with ‘immediate effect.’
PM Rishi Sunak has said he was ‘grateful’ for her service as an MP.
Fools
Privately one assumes it is a huge relief to Sunak she has finally left the role.
It comes as she accused the PM of taking the ‘British public for fools,’ in her resignation letter.
She wrote that his government was “adrift”, and criticised his performance in a range of areas including taxation, tackling illegal migration, and “delivering on the benefits of Brexit”.
Here is a bit more of her sassy resignation speech! ‘Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened. 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?’
Nadine Dorries is no longer an MP
Nadine wrote on X: “Dear Nadine I am writing to confirm that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has this morning appointed you to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern. Your appointment continues until determined by a subsequent appointment to this Stewardship. I will inform the Speaker of the House of Commons next. Best wishes…”
Now when the Commons returns from recess on 4 September, a writ can be moved to trigger a by-election within 21 to 27 working days.
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