It’s only been a day since Nadine Dorries announced her resignation as an MP – in a scathing letter released to the Mail on Sunday blasting Rishi Sunak’s premiership. But it seems that the former culture secretary still has plenty of ammunition left over.
Dorries appeared on TalkTV this afternoon to explain why she felt she had to resign now, and to take another pop at the Prime Minister for good measure.
In the interview, she claimed that she had actually told Cabinet Secretary Simon Case last summer that she planned to resign, but that ‘there was a huge amount of pressure not to go’ from her colleagues. She held out this long, she said, because she didn’t want to force the Tories to fight a by-election on her patch that they would likely lose.
In the end, Dorries said she felt like she had to step down because ‘the entire summer Rishi Sunak has been asking me to go’.
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