Tory ghosts were out in force last night for the launch of Nadine Dorries’s new book, The Plot. Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss showed up, while Boris Johnson gave a supportive speech in which he compared “Nads” to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian dissident who was imprisoned for criticising Stalin. “She's got more balls than the cabinet,” he added. In her book, Dorries describes an elaborate conspiracy to bring Johnson down.
The party was held at private members’ club 5 Hertford Street, where Dorries held covert meetings with her litany of secret contacts. She describes herself in the book as a “regular” of the club. “There are worse places to base yourself when you are writing a book than in a secret nook in Mayfair where someone brings you food and drink all day long," she wrote.
