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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Pressure mounts on Nadine Dorries as second council calls for her to quit as MP

Nadine Dorries speaking in front of a lectern branded 'Conservative Democratic Organisation'
The town councils of Shefford and Flitwick have called for Nadine Dorries to resign immediately. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Nadine Dorries is under increasing pressure to step down as an MP after a second council in her constituency called for her immediate departure.

The former culture secretary said she would resign from representing her Mid Bedfordshire constituency with immediate effect in early June when Boris Johnson stood down as an MP and she failed to secure a peerage.

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