"The outgoing MP, a staunch ally of Sunak’s predecessor Boris Johnson, last spoke in the Commons more than 400 days ago and has voted only six times so far this year."
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Horrible MP, and absolutely useless.
Horrible ~~MP~~, person, and absolutely useless.
FTFY
Tory not doing the job she's being paid for is throwing a tantrum when told she can't be paid for a job she isn't doing. Brilliant. These are the same people that whinge about communism and want to stop paying people benefits. Rich people shouldn't be allowed to be MP
Fucking Tory cunt.
"... you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy."
So, a Tory then.
I can't believe the LD were stupid enough to table a motion about her absence. Never interrupt the opposition when they are making a mistake.
Don’t bother reading her resignation letter. It’s an advert for her new book peddling deep state nonsense.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak, Dorries accused the prime minister of putting her personal safety at risk by “whipping a public frenzy against her” and disclosed that police had visited her home last week, warning her about a threat to her security.
In her resignation letter, published in the Mail on Sunday, she wrote: “I shall today inform the chancellor of my intention to take the Chiltern Hundreds, enabling the writ to be moved on 4 September for the byelection you are so desperately seeking to take place.”
In further comments directed at Sunak, she wrote: “Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy.
“Bewildered, we look in vain for the grand political vision for the people of this great country to hold on to, that would make all this disruption and subsequent inertia worthwhile, and we find absolutely nothing.”
“Dosser Dorries” banners have been erected in nearby Flitwick where, last month, the town’s councillors demanded the MP resign, saying she had not held a surgery in the area since 2020.
That meeting, at the private members’ Flitwick Club on 6 March, just four days before Dorries became the first MP to be diagnosed with coronavirus, was the only time the former health minister had held a surgery there, according to local barman Paul Copperwheat.
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