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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mikey Smith

Lib Dems hope to capitalise on voter anger over 'absent' Nadine Dorries in by-election

The Lib Dems are hoping to capitalise on voters' anger at Nadine Dorries to take the Tory MP's Mid Bedfordshire seat in the by-election - whenever it happens.

Despite announcing she would quit Parliament, Ms Dorries says she’ll cling on until she’s finished investigating why she was left off Boris Johnson ’s list of peerages.

She’s accused Rishi Sunak and “sinister forces” in Downing Street from blocking her from the House of Lords - which No10 firmly denies.

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