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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Kemi Badenoch says death threats intensified after Nadine Dorries book

Kemi Badenoch
Badenoch also complained in the interview that she was portrayed by Dorries as a puppet of Michael Gove. Photograph: Reuters

Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, has spoken of receiving death threats after the former Tory MP Nadine Dorries claimed she was aligned to a plot to control the top of the Conservative party.

Badenoch said death threats had intensified since the publication of Dorries’ book The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, which claims a sinister cabal called “the movement” has “set out to control the destiny of the Conservative party” for 25 years.

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