Nadine Dorries' defection an act of revenge on the Tories for ousting Boris Johnson

Nadine Dorries has ne'er forgiven the Conservative Party for ousting her leader Boris Johnson, connected whom she continues to lavish praise.

Now she's taken her revenge connected the Tories by declaring her enactment for different charismatic governmental leader: Reform UK's Nigel Farage.

Of course, the ex-MP dubbed "Mad Nad" by Labour MPs erstwhile she was successful Parliament has 1 happening successful communal with her caller enactment leader.

They've some appeared connected I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, Dorries successful 2012, without permission, for which she had the Conservative whip withdrawn.

And Farage went into the jungle successful 2023. So possibly the brace tin present fondly callback eating pigs' testicles, food eyes, worms and crocodile anus. Or possibly not.

"The Tory enactment is dead," she declared successful the Daily Mail. "Its members present request to deliberation the unthinkable and look to the future."

Dead? Like the dormant parrot successful the celebrated Monty Python sketch? "No, it's not, it's resting," Tory loyalists volition nary uncertainty claim. Not wholly convincingly astatine present, however.

But erstwhile Nadine Dorries talks astir Conservatives reasoning the unthinkable, is she advocating a pact with Reform UK oregon much defections? It's not clear.

Another intriguing question: does the Dorries defection summation the anticipation of Reform UK landing their biggest catch, the Tories' biggest beast successful exile, Boris Johnson?

Unlikely. Mr Johnson has said the champion mode for the Conservatives to antagonistic Farage is to disregard him and not notation him. Sound proposal for the Tories and Labour, galore would say.

Nadine was truthful devoted to Boris that backmost successful 2016 she sobbed astatine the quality league erstwhile helium bottled it and announced helium wouldn't basal successful the enactment contention aft David Cameron discontinue pursuing his Brexit referendum humiliation.

She ne'er had immoderate clip for Cameron. In 2012 she denounced the past PM and his chancellor George Osborne arsenic "two arrogant posh boys who don't cognize the terms of milk".

And erstwhile she discontinue the Commons she launched a "posh boy" onslaught connected Rishi Sunak, claiming that arsenic chancellor "you flashed your gleaming grin successful your Prada shoes and Savile Row suit", delivered "platitudes" and spoke astir "how fantastic beingness was successful California".

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Though a arguable figure, she does person her fans and supporters, who assertion that from a working-class inheritance - similar Angela Rayner, anyone? - she's achieved large successes wrong and extracurricular politics.

Her novels are massively successful, for instance, and person earned her a batch of money. But she missed retired connected the peerage she claims Boris Johnson promised her. Boris Johnson? Broken promise? Never, surely.

Yet successful the years aft helium was ousted, Nadine has remained truthful devoted to her not-so-secret crush that she wrote a publication entitled The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson.

It was afloat of elaborate conspiracy theories claiming a concealed Tory cabal, including Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings brought down her hero.

She adjacent claimed Sunak plotted to bring down Johnson by conspiring with a "frightening individual" she codenamed Dr No, aft the sinister Bond villain.

So conscionable however large a prize is Nadine's defection for Reform UK, then? Her I'm a Celebrity jaunt, her novels and her TV chat shows means she passes the celebrated test.

For astir of her governmental career, however, she was a maverick backbencher. It was Johnson who stunned MPs by appointing her to his furniture arsenic civilization secretary.

But by the clip she discontinue arsenic a Conservative MP successful 2023, plunging the enactment into an unnecessary by-election which it duly lost, she was already an absentee MP.

She hadn't spoken successful the Commons for much than a twelvemonth and had lone voted six times successful 12 months. Constituents claimed they hadn't seen her "in years".

In her Mid Bedfordshire constituency successful Johnson's 2019 predetermination triumph she had a bulk of astir 25,000. Yet successful the by-election aft she discontinue Labour won with a plaything of much than 20%.

In caller months, Dorries has written successful her Daily Mail columns astir losing 3 chromatic by taking the value nonaccomplishment cause Mounjaro.

But she says what's been hard and agonising for the past 12 months is her determination to permission the Conservative Party aft much than 30 years.