A Wicked Woman (The Bellfont Legacy)

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Despite being invited to continue in the position, she resigned as Culture Secretary ahead of the formation of the Truss ministry, after Liz Truss took over from Johnson on 6 September 2022. 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. She said of her tactics on this issue in 2007: "If I were to argue that all abortions should be banned, the ethical discussions would go round in circles . In May 2007, she criticised Cameron for ignoring the recommendations of the Conservative public policy working group in favour of grammar schools. Clegg's apparent opposition was, for Dorries, a means of "blackmailing our Prime Minister", [169] and a question regarding Liberal Democrats' influence was the source of Cameron's description of Dorries as "extremely frustrated" at Prime Minister's questions on 7 September.

In May 2008, Dorries tabled an amendment to the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill seeking to reduce the upper limit for abortions from the current 24 weeks of pregnancy to 20 weeks. Cameron's government at first supported the proposal, but later changed its mind, [165] reportedly because then- Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was opposed to the change. 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 a nurses’ home” 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.

The programme included footage of an LCF representative meeting with Dorries to influence policy on matters where they had a common agenda. Tory women-only shortlists", Archived 28 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine Woman's Hour, 22 August 2000. On 13 January 2011, it was reported by the Daily Mirror that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses.

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". On 29 May 2015, the independent candidate in Mid Bedfordshire, Tim Ireland, lodged an appeal against the result accusing Dorries of breaches of Section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 by making false statements about his character.The company was sold in 1998 to BUPA; [14] Dorries was subsequently a director of the health provider during the following year. Infighting and stupidity': Johnson loyalist and ex-culture sec Nadine Dorries to quit as MP at next election". For my money the latter is the most intriguing series – I accidentally started with the third book, The Velvet Ribbon, which moves away from hardknock communities in Liverpool, where “life was lived close to the cobbles”, to Ireland and a Gypsy woman, Shona. On 27 June 2013, Dorries announced she would no longer claim her personal expenses as an MP, but would draw on her salary for such costs. As Nadine Bargery, she was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for Hazel Grove, near Manchester in spring 2000.

Dorries was one of ten parliamentarians personally named in a Commons Select Committee of Privileges special report on the "co-ordinated campaign of interference in the work of the Privileges Committee", published on 28 June 2023. She said everyone was fearing a 'suicide', and colleagues were constantly checking up on each other. Nadine Dorries officially out as MP, 81 days after announcing resignation with 'immediate effect' ". 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". Dorries, described as "a right-wing, working-class Conservative", [148] is a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group.Neither the Conservative chief whip, Sir George Young, nor the chairman of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association were informed of her absence from Parliament. Leave-voting MP Nadine Dorries slams May's Brexit deal because UK won't have seats in European parliament". Dorries initially supported David Davis to become Conservative leader in 2005, [21] later withdrawing her endorsement.

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. On 14 May 2020, Dorries was criticised after she retweeted a doctored video from a far-right Twitter account which falsely claimed that Labour leader Keir Starmer obstructed the prosecution of grooming gangs while he served as Director of Public Prosecutions. What goes on in here would have no structure whatsover, no sense of achievement if it wasn't for people like Andrea on the outside.

It became public knowledge in September 2013 that Dorries had signed a three-book deal for a six-figure advance; [138] [139] her first book was published the following April. In 2012, she lost the Conservative whip after she took part in the reality TV programme I'm a Celebrity. But fate is about to take a dramatic turn, plunging her into a battle between passion and duty, when, on the eve of her wedding, love at first sight threatens to sweep her away. Dorries proposed amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 which would have blocked abortion services such as BPAS and Marie Stopes International from providing counselling services. In 1982, Dorries became a medical representative to Ethicla Ltd for a year, before spending a year in Zambia (1983–84) [11] as the head of a community school, where her husband ran a copper mine.