More than two months after saying she would go, she tells Rishi Sunak 'history will not judge you kindly'.
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Ms Dorries, whose salary as an MP is £86,584, had come under increasing pressure to act on her promise to resign as she had not spoken in the Commons since June 2022.and published the eviscerating text on the Daily Mail's subscription service Mail+Despite saying she would quit with immediate effect, Ms Dorries subsequently said she wanted to find out why she was refused a seat in the House of Lords.
This, she said, resulted in "the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person".she also remembers having to "hide from the rent man as we couldn't pay him. Some days there would be no food." She was elected MP for Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, although her decision to go on ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here in 2012She would later serve as a health minister before being appointed to the cabinet in 2021 when Boris Johnson made her culture secretary.
"You have no mandate from the people and the government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?"
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