MADRID, 27 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
British MP Nadine Dorries has formally resigned her parliamentary seat eleven weeks after pledging to leave and has done so by launching a scathing attack on the country’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, who is facing another difficult by-election.
The former Tory minister had announced in June that she would be leaving the Commons with “immediate effect” in protest at not being included in Boris Johnson’s resignation honors list, but had not done so until now.
In her resignation letter, Dorries has accused the prime minister of betraying Conservative principles and endangering her personal safety by stirring up “a public frenzy” against her.
The Treasury has confirmed that it has received notice of Dorries’ intention to resign, and she is expected to be removed from the Commons when she is appointed to the historic post of Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on Tuesday.
This will pave the way for a by-election to be held in his Mid Bedfordshire constituency in the coming weeks, dealing a blow to Sunak, who is losing support in the polls.
In his statement, published in the conservative newspaper ‘The Mail on Sunday’, Dorries has criticized Sunak for having abandoned “the fundamental principles of conservatism” and has assured that “history will not judge him kindly”.
“Since he took office a year ago, the country has been run by a zombie Parliament in which nothing significant has happened,” he said. “The Government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?”, She added.
PRESSURE AND “CLEARLY ORCHESTRED ATTACKS”
In recent weeks, the former culture minister has come under increasing pressure — also from other Conservative MPs — to make good on her promise to resign.
Responding to these pressures, Dorries said she was delaying her departure while she investigated why she had been denied a seat.
In her long letter, the until now deputy has accused Sunak of leading attacks against her that have caused “the Police to have had to visit my house and contact me on several occasions due to threats against me.”
“The personal attacks, clearly orchestrated and almost daily, demonstrate the regrettable low level to which his government has descended,” he said.
In his letter, Dorries has also clarified that he first told Cabinet Secretary Simon Case of his intention to resign in July last year, but that close allies of the prime minister “had continued to implore me to wait until the next general election. instead of fueling another party-damaging by-election at a time when the party is consistently twenty points behind in the polls.”
On the other hand, the co-religionist of former Prime Minister Johnson has indicated that the book she has written, entitled The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson (The plot: the political assassination of Boris Johnson), which will be published in September, “exposes how the democratic process within our party has been corrupted” and has led her to the conclusion that she cannot continue to be a deputy.
A GREATER CHALLENGE
In his letter, Dorries told Sunak that Labor leader Keir Starmer “does not have the winning qualities of Thatcher, Blair or Boris Johnson, and sadly, Prime Minister, neither do you.”
“His actions have left some 200 or more of my fellow MPs facing an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in his eagerness to become Prime Minister he put his personal ambition before the stability of the country and our economy.” , has reproached him.
Labor is hoping to rally Dorries’s 24,000-vote majority in the by-election in Mid Bedfordshire, which the Conservative Party has held since 1931.
Mid Bedfordshire opposition campaign manager Peter Kyle has admitted it is a “bigger challenge” than his recent success in Selby and Ainsty, where he overturned a Conservative majority of 20,000, but insisted “we are really ready to face it.”
However, the Lib Dems also believe they have a chance of pulling off another surprise in the by-election, after rallying from a Blue majority of 19,000 in Somerton and Frome.
“The people of Mid Bedfordshire deserve better than this circus that the Tories have put on these past few months,” Ed Davey said. At the moment, Downing Street has not ruled on the matter.
2023-08-27 02:51:12
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