Rishi Sunak has labelled Nadine Dorries an absentee MP who is not properly representing her constituents, in a rare attack on a Conservative colleague that betrayed the mounting frustration in No 10 at her refusal to step down.
Dorries, the former culture secretary and close ally of Boris Johnson, announced nearly two months ago she would “immediately” resign as an MP, but has since said she wants answers as to why she did not receive a peerage in Johnson’s resignation honours list.
