NADINE Dorries has been mocked for promptly deleting a tweet in which she got the new Chancellor’s job wrong.
Amid all the chaos in Downing Street, Dorries congratulated Nadhim Zahawi on his new role as Health Secretary – ahem, sorry Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He takes over from Rishi Sunak, who quit in dramatic fashion on Wednesday night, just minutes after former Health Secretary Sajid Javid resigned his post.
Who can blame the Culture Secretary for getting a bit lost as the Government collapses around Johnson’s ears?
Nadine Dorries tweeted this and then very quickly deleted it. pic.twitter.com/0frk1GexXU
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) July 5, 2022
Dorries – who has never been accused of being detail-oriented – tweeted a ministerial-looking picture of Zahawi, handily containing both his name and new job title.
She also put her foot in it by mentioning the former Education Secretary had arrived in the UK as a refugee.
She made no mention of whether she would like to see Zahawi or his family sent to Rwanda.
In the now-deleted tweet, Dorries wrote: “He arrived in the UK a refugee who couldn’t speak English who knows nothing but how to achieve against the odds.
“He will deliver for health in the same way he delivered for vaccines and education. A top Cabinet minister.
“Congratulations my friend.”
She sent another tweet in which she got Zahawi’s job right and dropped the reference to him “knowing nothing” but how to succeed.
Zahawi has nailed his colours to the mast by taking on the role of the nation’s top bean counter, amid claims he threatened to follow Sunak and Javid out the door unless he got a better job.
Russ Jones, who is Big On Twitter for his “This Week in Tory” round-ups of Conservative misdeeds, tweeted: “Nadine Dorries occupies the precise intellectual space where you are stupid enough to tweet this monumental takedown of your own policies, but just about bright enough to employ somebody to tell you to delete it.”
Dorries has also hit out at Tory rebels plotting to change party rules to allow a second confidence vote in the Prime Minister, saying they wanted to "break the rules".
