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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Faithless Tories feign loyalty to Rish! with all the plausibility of a Nadine Dorries story

Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak: ‘Just saying there’s a plan when there clearly isn’t is an insult to people’s intelligence.’ Photograph: UK Parliament/Maria Unger/Reuters

Cometh the hour … At times like these, we can only turn to one person. The woman with her finger on the dark heart of the Tory party. The woman who managed to expose a secret even MI6 didn’t realise it had. Even though it was MI6 who told her. Step forward, Nadine Dorries.

Her seminal work of fiction, The Plot: the Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, uncovered a new history of the last 25 years. Nothing had been quite as it seemed. Here’s where her fearless research took her. Back in 1997, William Hague and Michael Gove had conspired to divert the Tory party from its true nature as the home of the deranged. So they had deliberately failed to make the party electable to allow David Cameron and George Osborne to take over.

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