Kirsty Strickland: Nadine Dorries’s poison pen letter was well worth the wait

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Kirsty Strickland: Nadine Dorries’s poison pen letter was well worth the wait
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AS a teenager, I remember finding it excruciatingly awkward whenever I heard a friend’s parents arguing. I have similar feelings about this latest…

AS a teenager, I remember finding it excruciatingly awkward whenever I heard a friend’s parents arguing. I have similar feelings about this latest instalment of Tory infighting.

Her resignation letter to the Prime Minister is nearly 2000 words long. Approximately 1500 of those words are just her telling Rishi Sunak that she thinks he’s an eejit. One of the things Dorries is unhappy about is the Prime Minister’s failure to introduce regulatory reform to attract tech sector investment. She says that when he met industry leaders: “You flashed your gleaming smile in your Prada shoes and Savile Row suit from behind a camera but you just weren’t listening.”prime ministers since 2010, with “none of the previous four having left office as the result of losing a General Election”.

Dorries says that her party has got through so many prime ministers in such a short space of time due to the “machinations of a small group of individuals embedded deep at the centre of the party and Downing Street”. But we can forgive Nadine Dorries for her tendency to rewrite history because what she lacks in reliable analysis she more than makes up for in comedy value.

She accuses the prime minister of being part of a shadowy plot to intimidate her into silence. “Forces,” she says, were out to get her: “And, as you also know, Prime Minister, those forces are today the most powerful figures in the land.’’

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