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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Toby Helm and Nadeem Badshah

Nadine Dorries formally resigns as MP with broadside against Rishi Sunak

Nadine Dorries announced her resignation with ‘immediate effect’ in June 2023.
Nadine Dorries announced her resignation with ‘immediate effect’ in June 2023. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

The Tory MP and former minister Nadine Dorries has resigned her Commons seat and accused Rishi Sunak of “demeaning his office” by speaking out against her.

Two-and-a-half months after first announcing her intention to step down as MP for Mid Bedfordshire in protest at not receiving a peerage, Dorries on Saturday accused the prime minister of abandoning “the fundamental principles of Conservatism”, telling him: “History will not judge you kindly.”

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