Politics latest: Nadine Dorries refuses to confirm she will vote Tory at next general election

As we've been reporting, former minister Nadine Dorries yesterday handed in her resignation as an MP - 11 weeks after she vowed to go.

She told TalkTV:"You're asking me a question I don't want to answer. But I'll tell you what I will say. The union previously branded the giant barge, initially designed for about 200 people but modified to house 500 migrants, a"potential death trap". After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the British military airlifted thousands of people to safety - and offered others refuge via two schemes.

It is thought Jeremy Hunt will facilitate her exit from the House of Commons by appointing her to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on the first working day after the bank holiday. Sadiq Khan has accused the government of"weaponising air pollution" ahead of the expansion of London's ultra-low emission zone next week.

To Labour MPs and her detractors in the Tory party, she's"Mad Nad". To constituents furious with their absentee MP, she's"Dosser Dorries". While she's making a lot of noise and clearly hell-bent on taking her revenge on Mr Sunak for his role in the demise of her beloved Boris, we're not talking political earthquake here like the resignation of titans like Michael Heseltine from Margaret Thatcher's cabinet in 1986 or Robin Cook over Tony Blair's Iraq war in 2003.

Former Fleet Street executive and Tory spin doctor Henry Macrory tells an amusing story about Nadine's time working for Letwin when he was shadow chancellor. Discovering her frantically applying make-up to his face, Macrory asked what she was doing."Oliver’s doing an interview," she replied."For whom?" Macrory enquired."Moneybox!" she said proudly."But Moneybox is a radio programme," he informed her.

Turning to"the political assassination of Boris Johnson", she claims there's a"dark story" which she intends to tell in a book"which exposes how the democratic process at the heart of our party has been corrupted".

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