Nadine Dorries has broken her holiday to argue that the fallout from the expenses scandal will alter the make-up of Parliament for the worse:
‘The new pernicious rule for MPs to declare hours spent on outside interests will prevent the multi-skilled, clever, articulate, learned individuals who are, by their own obvious track record of achievement, the type of people Parliament desperately needs to attract and retain – from even considering a life as an MP.
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Instead we will see the emergence of a new breed of MP: those who will enter Parliament because they are rich, or careerist.’
The contempt the public holds for politicians makes it unlikely that careerists will dominate Parliament.
Throughout the Totnes primary, the GP Sarah Wollaston was keen to point out that she was not a politician; by contrast, her opponents had worked in local party politics for years.
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