The Plot: Nadine backs Jenrick

With just over a week left until the Tory leadership race concludes, the endorsements are rolling in. While a selection of new backers have rowed in behind Kemi Badenoch in recent days, Robert Jenrick’s campaign has not been devoid of last minute supporters. His former boss Suella Braverman has today announced she will be supporting her former immigration minister – and she’s not the only ex-cabinet secretary throwing her weight behind Team Rob. In big news this morning, one-time culture secretary Nadine Dorries has revealed she will be backing Jenrick.

Taking to the august pages of the Daily Mail, Dorries has left readers reeling with her announcement that she will not in fact lend Badenoch her support. Lauding Jenrick for having ‘marched willingly into the sound of media gunfire in order to defend the [Tory] government’, Dorries penned a gushing tribute in today’s paper:

The Conservatives need to choose the best possible leader – not only to put an end to my own bad dreams, but to shake the entire party from its own collective nightmare, which began when they got rid of Boris in 2022.