Tory MP Nadine Dorries resigns Commons seat 'with immediate effect' two months after promising to quit as MP

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Tory MP Nadine Dorries has resigned her Commons seat two months after promising to step down.

It follows mounting pressure on the Conservative MP for Mid-Bedfordshire and PM Rishi Sunak after Dorries pledged to step down 11 weeks ago.

The Tory MP accused Sunak of "demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy" against her.

 

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