Nadine Dorries to stand down as MP at next election

Former civilization caput Nadine Dorries has said she volition not beryllium lasting arsenic an MP astatine the adjacent wide election.

Conservative Ms Dorries utilized her TalkTV amusement to denote her departure and deed retired astatine "MPs who drank the Kool-Aid and got escaped of Boris Johnson".

She has been a professional of Rishi Sunak's authorities since helium entered Number 10.

Ms Dorries, who is penning a publication astir the governmental downfall of Mr Johnson, described "the deficiency of cohesion, the infighting and occasionally the sheer stupidity from those who deliberation we could region a sitting premier minister, who secured a higher percent of the ballot stock than Tony Blair did successful 1997, conscionable 3 abbreviated years ago".

She added: "That they could bash that and the nationalist would fto america get distant with it. I'm acrophobic it's this behaviour that I present conscionable person to region myself from."

Ms Dorries, a palmy writer of romanticist humanities novels, has held the Mid Bedfordshire spot since 2005.

She was elected with a bulk of much than 24,000 astatine the 2019 election.

The erstwhile nurse, from Liverpool, said: "Despite it being a occupation that I've loved for each twelvemonth that I've done it, I'm present off.

"Oh gosh, I've conscionable said it retired large - there's nary going backmost now."