Nadine Dorries not doing MP's job properly, says Rishi Sunak

Nadine Dorries's constituents are not being decently represented, the premier curate has said.

Rishi Sunak told LBC radical deserved to person an MP "that represents them wherever they are".

The erstwhile civilization caput announced successful June she was lasting down arsenic MP for Mid Bedfordshire with contiguous effect.

But she aboriginal said she would not resign until she got much accusation astir wherefore she was denied a peerage successful Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.

Ms Dorries has not spoken successful the Commons since June 2022.

In his LBC interview, Mr Sunak acceptable retired what helium thought radical had close to expect from their MPs.

"It's conscionable making definite your MP is engaging with you, representing you, whether that's speaking successful Parliament oregon being contiguous successful their constituencies doing surgeries, answering your letters.

"That's the occupation of an MP and each MPs should beryllium held to that standard."

Asked if that meant Ms Dorries was failing her constituents, Mr Sunak said: "Well, astatine the moment, radical aren't being decently represented."

A adjacent state of Mr Johnson, she has accused Mr Sunak's governmental squad of removing her sanction from the erstwhile premier minister's resignation honours list. She said she had requested copies of each correspondence relating to her information for the Lords.

Ms Dorries said she was seeking the accusation from the House of Lords Appointments Commission - which vets nominations, the furniture caput - the caput of the civilian work - and the Cabinet Office.

She has insisted it remains "absolutely my volition to resign", but "this process is present sadly necessary".

Her "office continues to relation arsenic mean and volition of people proceed to service my constituents," she added.

Downing Street has said it is important for her constituents to person "certainty".

Ms Dorries had a bulk of 24,664 successful Mid Bedfordshire successful the 2019 wide election, but some Labour and the Liberal Democrats are already targeting the seat. A by-election tin beryllium called lone erstwhile an MP formally resigns.

Last week, Flitwick Town Council, successful her constituency, added its dependable to calls for Ms Dorries to discontinue immediately, pointing to her occupation hosting a amusement connected TalkTV.

The councillors besides noted she had not maintained a constituency bureau "for a sizeable time".

Alistair Strathern, Labour's Mid Bedfordshire candidate, said residents were "sick of being taken for granted, they privation due practice and a section MP who puts them first".

Lib Dem MP Sarah Olney said: "While families crossed Bedfordshire are struggling to spot a GP and facing soaring owe costs, Nadine Dorries continues to clasp connected to a occupation she has nary involvement is doing."

Ms Dorries has besides written a publication titled The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson, owed to beryllium published days earlier the Conservative Party league successful October.