Rishi Sunak can’t win the next election, Nadine Dorries blasts as she reveals she quit over safety fears
RISHI Sunak can’t win the next election, Nadine Dorries blasts as she continued her savage attack on the PM.
The former Culture Secretary sensationally quit her seat yesterday after weeks of threatening to.
And she revealed on Talk TV she had finally quit over safety fears after speaking with police in the past few days.
The by-election for her Mid Bedfordshire seat will likely take place around the time Rishi Sunak has been in power for a year.
The formal process can’t formally start until MPs go back to Parliament in around a week’s time.
Speaking to Nick de Bois on Talk TV just hours after her blistering 1800-word resignation letter to the PM, she said he had been running “an absolute zombie parliament”.
And when asked if he could win the next election, the Boris Johnson ally replied: “I have to say the answer to that question is no, I don’t think so.
“It’s very unlikely”.
She refused to say she would even vote Tory, saying: “I don’t want to answer.”
And she even refused to rule out joining the Reform party when grilled on her political future, saying: “It’s my granddaughter’s birthday, I’m not tinking about doing things like that.”
Ms Dorries hit out at Mr Sunak for abandoning a string of Boris’ 2019 election manifesto – which she says is what people voted Tory for.
She listed his scrapping of housing targets and failure to deliver leaseholder reforms as promised.
Boris had the “X Factor like Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair” who were “visionary and got stuff done”, she added.
Her upcoming book into BoJo’s downfall will see people “named and shamed”, she warned.
And she added: “It’s going to be quite alarming to the Conservative membership, but it has to be written.”
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She hit out: “I don’t know what Rishi Sunak is doing. It didn’t have to be this way. Why?
“Why would any PM wish a by-election on his party when it is 20 points behind in the polls?”
Ms Dorries said she would quit back in June after she was blocked from Boris’ resignation honours list.
But she has failed to do so – with critics saying she was waiting for the right time to have maximum imapct.