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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nina Lloyd and Eleanor Noyce

Nadine Dorries brands Rishi Sunak ‘privileged posh boy’ who ‘cruelly’ blocked peerage

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Nadine Dorries has claimed Rishi Sunak is a “privileged posh boy” who “cruelly” blocked her from a future in the House of Lords.

Using an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV to launch a fresh attack on the Prime Minister, she claimed he’d used “weasel words” and “sophistry” in a meeting with Boris Johnson last week. She labelled both Mr Sunak and his political aide James Forsyth “privileged posh boys” who “duplicitously and cruelly” blocked her from a peerage.

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