Nadine Dorries is set to an earn an extra £22,000 from the taxpayer by clinging on to her job in parliament over the summer – despite have promised to stand down more than a month ago.
The former culture secretary said she would quit her Mid Bedfordshire seat in fury over her failure to gain a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, alleging that “posh boy” Rishi Sunak had blocked it.
